A few weeks ago, Adv. Gal Dabush took up the position of Population and Immigration Representative in the Counseling and Legislation Department of the Ministry of Justice.
Until recently, Dabush was very active in organizations and associations that opposed government policy, campaigned against it and worked to change it. She served as the coordinator of the Exercise Rights Project at the Center for the African Community in Jerusalem, a body that provides legal and social assistance to infiltrators, and was active in the campaign against the return of infiltrators to Uganda and Rwanda about two years ago. Prior to that, Dabush served as a Fellow of the “Legal Aid Program for Asylum Seekers” of the ISIS organization, an organization that participates in various legal proceedings to keep infiltrators in Israel.
Dabush’s positions are not secret. During the campaign against the return of infiltrators to their country in 2018, she called the struggle a “struggle of the sons of light and the sons of darkness” on her Facebook page, and called for fighting “by any non-violent means to ensure the safety of asylum seekers in this country.” She said, “It is better for us to live in an ongoing quarrel with the corrupt in power, than to live the rest of our lives with the knowledge that crimes against humanity and crimes against human beings have been committed in our name.”
Response from the Ministry of Justice: “Adv. Dabush was hired by the Ministry of Justice in accordance with all the rules for hiring employees in the civil service. This is Adv. Dabush’s activity as a student which ended two and a half years ago and was known when she was accepted into the firm. Now, before receiving treatment in the areas of population and immigration in counseling and legislation, He was examined by the Ministry’s Legal Bureau, which ruled that in the circumstances of the case there was no need to impose any restriction and there was no need to make a settlement to prevent a conflict of interest.
“It should be emphasized that a population referent in counseling and legislation is responsible for preparing preliminary opinions, under the guidance of the head of the cluster in charge (and certainly at the beginning of his career) in the areas of referral.