Alexandrowicz

New Israeli documentary looks at bizarre world of Israeli law in West Bank, other parts of future Palestinian state

Arts, Culture & Media

When Israel 50 years ago occupied the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and other parts of land that Palestinians hope will be their own state, they quickly implemented a series of laws to govern the land. Those laws were expected to be temporary, but decades later they persist, and they’ve amounted to a bizarre, and sometimes contradictory, system.