The Jerusalem District Court, sitting as a Civil Appeals Court, on Sunday overturned a lower ruling allowing Ariel Mayor Yair Chetboun to bar some Palestinian Authority workers from the Samaria capital for security reasons.

“We have found no basis for such far-reaching authority,” judges wrote. “The authority to permit entry into the closed area, including the municipality’s territory, is vested in the military commander.”

District Court judges Oded Shaham, Avraham Rubin and Nimrod Flax accepted an appeal filed by the Military Advocate General’s Office and reversed an April ruling by Ariel Local Affairs Court Judge Amir Dahan.

The latest ruling ordered the Ariel Municipality to forward any request from business owners who seek to employ P.A. Arabs to the military, which will have the fi

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