The small affluent community of Katzir has become a byword for the apartheid policies of the Israeli state.
For nine years, an Arab family, the Kadans, who live a short distance away in the Israeli Arab town of Baqa al-Gharbiya, have been fighting through the courts to be allowed to join the Jewish community.
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Human rights campaigners believe that the Katzir ruling has done little to change the apartheid reality for the country's 1.3 million Palestinian citizens in a state that owns and controls 93% of land - not on behalf of Israeli citizens but for Jewish people around the world.
Over decades, land belonging to Arab towns and villages has been confiscated to be held by the state for the day it may be needed for the settlement of new Jewish immigrants.
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