Family at Risk of Eviction from Public Housing to Ask to Cancel the Order: "We Were Not Given a Chance to Defend Ourselves"
The Amram family, facing eviction from their public housing apartment, is expected to file a request to cancel the eviction order and liens imposed on them, following a 'Davar' exposé and the freezing of the eviction until November. Attorney Ariel Tal argues that the ruling was given without the family being represented and without full opportunity to defend themselves, and that even the last hearing took place in their absence.
The Amram family, at risk of eviction from their public housing apartment, is expected to file in the coming days a request with the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court to cancel the eviction order issued against them. This follows a 'Davar' exposé and the court's decision to freeze the eviction until November to allow the family to exhaust their rights. Concurrently, the family is expected to request the cancellation of liens imposed on them following the ruling. Attorney Ariel Tal, who examined the case, claims that the proceedings leading to the ruling had substantial flaws. According to him, the family was not represented in a way that allowed them to defend their rights, and Amidar did not present all information regarding their rights to the apartment. Tal also claims that even for the hearing held yesterday, the family did not receive an order to appear in court, and the hearing was held again without their presence or that of their lawyer. Tal says: "The ruling was given in a flawed manner; the family received no legal representation. It must be overturned out of a duty of justice." According to him, in 2022, after Moran Amram's mother passed away, Amidar approached the court demanding the daughter vacate the apartment, claiming she had no rights to it. The ruling was given in the absence of family members, and throughout the legal proceedings, the couple had no legal representation. The article notes that the current wave of evictions resumed in recent months, with what appears to be the end of the eviction freeze that began in November 2021. Then-Housing Minister Ze'ev Elkin decided to freeze about 1,000 evictions for a re-examination of cases by a special committee. Tal claims that the careful examination was a governmental promise that was broken. The Housing Ministry and Amidar had not responded by the time of publication.