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The Players of Camp David
No full textAn insider Israeli view on the personalities and ideas that drove the history-making Camp David Accord
Shemesh v. Focaccetta Ltd
Get PDFFacts: The applicant, who was pregnant, and her children went to dine at the respondent’s restaurant. While dining, another customer of the respondent began to smoke. The applicant complained to the respondent but the customer continued smoking. The applicant filed a claim in the Small Claims Court on the grounds that the smoking in the restaurant was illegal and caused her damage. The trial court held that the respondent had breached the law, but it only awarded the applicant compensation for the cost of the meal (NIS 112) plus expenses. The applicant applied for leave to appeal to the District Court, but the District Court held that the amount awarded fell within the broad margin of reasonableness. The applicant then applied to the Supreme Court for leave to file a further appeal. Held: Justice Rubinstein, sitting as a single Justice, recognized the importance of enforcing the Restriction of Smoking in Public Places Law, 5744-1983, by means of civil actions, especially in view of the ineffectiveness of enforcement of the law by the authorities. A breach of the law constitutes a breach of the statutory duty in the Restriction of Smoking in Public Places Law, which was intended to protect the health of persons in public places. Jewish law has also increasingly recognized the dangers caused to the public by smoking in public places. The Restriction of Smoking in Public Places Law does not contain a provision for awarding compensation without proving damage. But it is very difficult, because of the nature of the case, to prove specific damage from an incident of smoking. In view of the fact that the breach of the statutory duty in this case involved a family with children and a pregnant woman, there are grounds for giving stronger emphasis to the damage, for the purpose of deterrence. The Supreme Court therefore awarded the applicant an additional NIS 1,000 in compensation
Azbarga v. State of Israel
Get PDFThis is an appeal to a single Justice of a decision of the Tel-Aviv-Jaffa District Court, in which the appellant’s application to be allowed out of house arrest, on a daily basis at fixed times, in order to participate in daily prayers at the mosque of the town of Qalansuwa, was denied. Justice Rubenstein allowed the appeal in part, allowing the appellant to go to the nearest mosque to pray once a week and, after three months without incident, to go to the mosque once a day
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Azbarga v. State of Israel
No full textThis is an appeal to a single Justice of a decision of the Tel-Aviv-Jaffa District Court, in which the appellant’s application to be allowed out of house arrest, on a daily basis at fixed times, in order to participate in daily prayers at the mosque of the town of Qalansuwa, was denied. Justice Rubenstein allowed the appeal in part, allowing the appellant to go to the nearest mosque to pray once a week and, after three months without incident, to go to the mosque once a day
Shemesh v. Focaccetta Ltd
No full textFacts: The applicant, who was pregnant, and her children went to dine at the respondent’s restaurant. While dining, another customer of the respondent began to smoke. The applicant complained to the respondent but the customer continued smoking. The applicant filed a claim in the Small Claims Court on the grounds that the smoking in the restaurant was illegal and caused her damage. The trial court held that the respondent had breached the law, but it only awarded the applicant compensation for the cost of the meal (NIS 112) plus expenses. The applicant applied for leave to appeal to the District Court, but the District Court held that the amount awarded fell within the broad margin of reasonableness. The applicant then applied to the Supreme Court for leave to file a further appeal. Held: Justice Rubinstein, sitting as a single Justice, recognized the importance of enforcing the Restriction of Smoking in Public Places Law, 5744-1983, by means of civil actions, especially in view of the ineffectiveness of enforcement of the law by the authorities. A breach of the law constitutes a breach of the statutory duty in the Restriction of Smoking in Public Places Law, which was intended to protect the health of persons in public places. Jewish law has also increasingly recognized the dangers caused to the public by smoking in public places. The Restriction of Smoking in Public Places Law does not contain a provision for awarding compensation without proving damage. But it is very difficult, because of the nature of the case, to prove specific damage from an incident of smoking. In view of the fact that the breach of the statutory duty in this case involved a family with children and a pregnant woman, there are grounds for giving stronger emphasis to the damage, for the purpose of deterrence. The Supreme Court therefore awarded the applicant an additional NIS 1,000 in compensation
Azbarga v. State of Israel
No full textThis is an appeal to a single Justice of a decision of the Tel-Aviv-Jaffa District Court, in which the appellant’s application to be allowed out of house arrest, on a daily basis at fixed times, in order to participate in daily prayers at the mosque of the town of Qalansuwa, was denied. Justice Rubenstein allowed the appeal in part, allowing the appellant to go to the nearest mosque to pray once a week and, after three months without incident, to go to the mosque once a day
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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