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The Jerusalem District Court on Tuesday awarded right-wing extremist Noam Federman tens of thousands of shekels in damages because he was remanded in custody for 46 days and then held in administrative detention and house detention for two years during the hearing of a criminal indictment the state ultimately withdrew. The damages were awarded for the estimated fees that he paid for legal representation and for the days he was held in jail, and administrative and house detention by the authorities between his arrest and early remand in custody until the abrupt end of the trial more than two years...

'We'll sabotage disengagement' Right-wing radical placed under house arrest, says measure won't deter plans to undermine disenaggement By Uri Yablonka Noam Federman: 'They won't be able to get to Gaza.' Photo: Amit Shabi TEL AVIV - "We are organizing violent riots in Arab villages during the disengagement plan to tie up soldiers and police officers who are supposed to remove settlements," right-wing ringleader Noam Federman declared. In order to stymie his plan, Federman was placed under house arrest by the order of OC Central Command Maj. Gen.Yair Naveh on the advice of the Shin Bet's Jewish Department. It was the...

Noam Federman's desperate struggle has been crowned with success - after more than two difficult months. Israel Prison Service officials arrived in his cell and asked him to sign his consent to be transferred out of Ashmoret Prison - something that he has been demanding since the beginning of his administrative detention in mid-September. In exchange, Federman agreed to stop the hunger strike he began well over seven weeks ago. Noam's wife Elisheva told Arutz-7's correspondent today that "for some reason, they don't do transfers on Thursdays or Fridays, and so it will happen at the beginning of next week."...

“Noam Federman is the only Israeli citizen in administrative detention today,” Attorney Naftali Wurtzberger told IsraelNationalNews.com today. “He is the test balloon gauging the effectiveness of administrative detention as a tool to quash opposition to the destruction of Yesha towns." “Noam Federman is the only Israeli citizen in administrative detention today,” Attorney Naftali Wurtzberger told IsraelNationalNews.com in an interview today. “He is the test balloon,” Wurtzberger added, as way of gauging the effectiveness of using administrative detention as a tool to quash opposition to the destruction of Yesha towns. Wurtzberger noted that the Yediot Acharonot newspaper recently carried an interview...