State given 6 months to answer petition on airport security bias

The High Court of Justice has given the Israel Airports Authority, the Shin Bet, and the Transportation Ministry six months to announce what action they intend to take to minimize bias in airport security checks.

The ruling comes in response to a petition by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, which argued that the current policy mandates much harsher security checks for Arab citizens than for Jewish Israelis. (Aviad Glickman)