04.07.1978|Judgment|Judgment / Supreme Court
HCJ 114/78 Burqan v. Minister of Finance et al. Judgment
Judgment in a petition by a resident of the Old City of Jerusalem to instruct the government to lease him one of the apartments for which it issued an “offer of apartments to the public" and cancel the provision restricting the offer of apartments to Israeli citizens and new Jewish immigrants. The petition is denied. The justices rule that the Housing Ministry's requirement that the lessees of the apartments in the Jewish Quarter in the old city be Israeli citizens or Jewish immigrants should not be construed as wrongful discrimination. The justices add that a petitioner seeking relief from the HCJ must observe silence out of court.
