Dobrin v. Israel Prison Service
Israel Supreme Court
HCJ 2245/06 (2006)

- Written by Whitney Waldenberg, JD
Facts
Yigal Amir assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and was serving a life sentence in Israeli prison. Amir was denied conjugal visits with his wife, so Amir applied to the Israel Prison Service (defendant) for permission to send sperm out of the prison to be able to artificially inseminate his wife. The Israel Prison Service granted Amir’s request, and two members of Israel’s Knesset, Neta Dobrin and Ronen Tzur (plaintiffs), filed a petition challenging the Israel Prison Service’s decision as unlawful because there was no statute granting the agency authority to approve Amir’s request to become a parent. The petitioners also argued that the decision was unreasonable because it was immoral to permit a murderer of the prime minister to procreate.
Rule of Law
Issue
Holding and Reasoning (Procaccia, J.)
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