On November 19, 2014, the National Insurance Institute (NII),
revoked the health insurance of three young siblings who are residents of Israel, ages six, four and two. The family received the news from staff at their local Klalit health fund clinic, where they went to see a doctor. Two of the siblings suffer from chronic medical conditions and require ongoing medical care and monitoring. On the previous day, their father committed the attack at the synagogue in the Har Nof neighborhood of Jerusalem.
After many communications in which HaMoked clarified that there was no legal basis for denying the children's rights, the NII initially argued that once the children’s mother lost her Israeli stay permit, the children’s center-of-life could not be in Israel, and therefore their social security rights had been denied. The NII later made the vague statement that “For the time being, it has been decided to return the children […] to the health database”.
HaMoked contacted the NII demanding clarification as to whether the “return to the health database” meant reinstatement of the children’s residency status, along with the remaining social security rights guaranteed with residency.
In its
response dated January 8, 2015, received by HaMoked only two weeks later, the NII announced that the children’s status had been reinstated, along with all other social security rights, as a result of the order nisi issued by the court in HaMoked’s petition against their mother’s deportation from Israel.
