While Israeli law is undergoing codification, its basic principles are inherited from the law of the British Mandate of Palestine and thus resemble those of British and American law, namely: the role of courts in creating the body of law and the authority of the supreme court in reviewing and if necessary overturning legislative and executive decisions, as well as employing the adversarial system.

While modern M16s and equipment are standard issue, much of the secondary equipment used by the Ghanaian military is generally older than that used in Western military forces, and Ghanaian troops frequently rely on British, Brazilian, Swiss, Swedish, Israeli, and Finnish weaponry.

While Doha also took a tough stand in the reaction to the Israeli invasion of Gaza.

While still opposed, like all mainstream Israeli leaders in the 1970s and early 1980s, to talks with the PLO, he distanced himself from settlers and spoke of the need for " territorial compromise " over the West Bank and Gaza.

While a significant portion of Israeli Jews still retain memories of their Sephardic, Ashkenazi and Mizrahi origins, mixed Jewish marriages among the communities are very common.

While not compromising on religious issues and their strict code of life, Haredi Jews have become more open to the secular Israeli culture.

While Israeli forces killed an estimated 1, 100 Palestinians and Palestinians killed 164 Israelis, Palestinians killed an estimated 1, 000 other Palestinians as alleged collaborators, although fewer than half had any proven contact with the Israeli authorities.

While he was being wheeled out of an early morning prayer session in Gaza city, an Israeli AH-64 Apache helicopter gunship fired Hellfire missiles at Yassin and both of his bodyguards.

While the CNU has international participation in Canada, sister organizations have been formed in other areas of the world including the Council for European Urbanism ( CEU ), the Movement for Israeli Urbanism ( MIU ) and the Australian Council for the New Urbanism.

While Rabbi Schneerson rarely chose to involve himself with questions of halakha ( Jewish law ), some notable exceptions were with regard to the use of electrical appliances on Shabbat, sailing on Israeli boats staffed by Jews, and halakhic dilemmas related to certain religious observances which may arise when crossing the International Date Line.

While Gush Emunim no longer exists officially, vestiges of its power remain in Israeli society.

While the Palestinian historian Mattar blames him as the main culprit of sowing the seeds of the Arab-Israeli conflict, Israeli historian Elpeleg, who formerly governed both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, compares him to Chaim Weizmann, David Ben-Gurion, and even to Theodor Herzl.

While the missiles were ineffective during the Battle of Latakia in 1973, four Styx missiles sank the Israeli destroyer Eilat in October 1967, marking the first time that ship-to-ship missiles were successfully used in combat.

While considered a children's favourite, sociologists have found that it is consumed as a comfort food by Israeli expatriates in the United States.

Further in other areas such as East Jerusalem the UN in May 2009 noted that " only 13 percent of East Jerusalem land is currently zoned by the Israeli authorities for Palestinian construction, and much of that is already built up " While the settlers constitute 17 % of the residents of the West Bank ( 300, 000 out of a total population of 1. 8 million ), the built up areas in the settlements occupy just 1. 7 % of the West Bank ; and if they continue to build solely at the rate of their natural growth ( 9, 000 births per year ), they will consume over the next decade a total of just one-half of one per cent in an area already delineated as their " municipal boundaries ".

While no injuries were reported and the attacker was subdued by guards hidden among the passengers 15 minutes before the plane landed safely in Turkey, authorities did shut down Ben Gurion for some time after the attack to reassess the security situation and an investigation was opened to determine how the man, an Israeli Arab, managed to smuggle the knife past the airport security.

While in Israel, the narrator seeks out an impersonator who has appropriated his identity — sharing the same facial features and name as Philip Roth — and used this celebrity to spread " Diasporism ," a counter-Zionist ideology advocating the return of Israeli Jews to their European nations of exile.

While some soldiers guarded the Arabs, others went to a nearby hilltop where the headless bodies of two Israeli soldiers were found.

While on his visit to Ireland, he also unveiled in Sneem Culture Park, Co Kerry, a modern polished steel Israeli sculpture, in honour of his childhood friend, Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, the fifth President of Ireland.

While music education for Israeli Arabs is less developed, there has been a steady growth of opportunities in this sector.

While the act was universally condemned by the Israeli establishment, some extremists praised it.

While serving as the United Nations envoy to Iraq, Brahimi described Israeli policy as " the big poison in the region.

While these laws were originally meant to be draft chapters of a future Israeli constitution, they are already used on a daily basis by the courts as a formal constitution.

While the Daily Post continued to accuse Republicans and the Daily Journal continued to accuse Democrats, the Woonsocket Patriot complained that the Virginia authorities showed indecent and cowardly haste to condemn Brown and his men.

While the rural upper class tried several times to finally expel the Jews, the financial interests of the authorities prevented this.

While government authorities prepared lists of aliens for deportation, many aliens fled the country during the debate over the Alien and Sedition Acts, and Adams never signed a deportation order.

While many scientific experts might agree on a common definition of the term " coast ", the delineation of the extents of a coast differ according to jurisdiction, with many scientific and government authorities in various countries differing for economic and social policy reasons.

While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment on criminals, it may still be permissible to take up arms to repel an aggressor or to have recourse to capital punishment.

While the Thai State offers recourse in the courts to obtain satisfaction after the fact, Thai authorities, NGOs and others generally offer little or no protection in preventing hate speech.

While the immediate response from the West German population was positive, the Soviet authorities were less pleased with the combative Lass sie nach Berlin kommen.

While the Palestinians were " carefully disarmed " by the British Mandatory authorities by 1939, the Zionists were not.

While earlier times had seen larger and taller longships in service, by this time the authorities had also gone over to other types of ships for warfare.

While the ethnic-based, three-tier, South African-imposed governing authorities have been dissolved, the current government pledged for the sake of national reconciliation to retain civil servants employed during the colonial period.

While no Orthodox legal authorities agree that women can form a minyan ( prayer quorum ) for the purpose of regular services, women in these groups read the prayers and study Torah.

While those who were born in these towns could technically enjoy all the rights of native French citizens, substantial legal and social barriers prevented the full exercise of these rights, especially by those seen by authorities as ' full blooded ' Africans.

While it is a popular belief that it is illegal to pick the common Trillium grandiflorum ( white trillium ) in Ontario, in reality they are only protected in provincial parks and land owned by conservation authorities.

“ Pre-marital, extra-marital and same-sex relationships are all forbidden in Islam .” While most members of these groups don ’ t adhere to the strict nature of their religious organization ’ s belief on cohabitation, the pressure from other members of the group or religious authorities lead to a drop in cohabitation.

While Nansen passports are no longer issued, present national authorities, including the United Nations, issue documents for stateless people and refugees.

While judicial efforts were handed over to German authorities, the US Army continued its efforts to denazify Germany through control of German media.

While some later rabbis have attempted to reconcile the differences, claiming that Maimonides ' principles are covered by Albo's much shorter list, alternate lists provided by other medieval rabbinic authorities seem to indicate some level of tolerance for varying theological perspectives.

While outwardly appearing to be similar, single-tier authorities formed using older legislation are not Unitary Authorities thus excluding e. g. the Isle of Wight Council or any other single-tier authority formed under the Local Government Act 1972 or older legislation.

While this precise terminology —" by faith alone "— does not appear in English Bible translations other than in where it has been claimed that the author seems to reject the notion that a person is justified by God solely on account of faith, other Catholic authorities also used " alone " in their translation of Romans 3: 28 or exegesis of salvation by faith passages, and it is claimed to summarize the teaching of the New Testament, and especially the Pauline epistles such as, which systematically reject the proposition that justification before God is obtained due to the merit of one's obedience to the Law of Moses ( see also Biblical law in Christianity ), or Abraham's circumcision and works.

While the Mason novels were largely a form of pulp fiction of the sort that began Gardner's writing career, they are unusual in that the whodunnit mysteries usually involved two solutions: one in which the authorities believed ( whereby Mason's client was guilty ) and an alternative explanation ( whereby Mason's client was innocent ).

While the Hebrew term of Kahal or Kehillah was used by the Jewish community, German authorities generally tended to use the term Judenräte.

While secular Jews ascend freely, the question of whether ascending is permitted is a matter some debate among religious authorities, with a majority holding that it is permitted to ascend to the Temple Mount, but not to step on the site of the inner courtyards of the ancient Temple.

While they did not eject the French colonial administration, the occupation authorities directed policy from behind the scenes in a parallel of Vichy France.

While the governor and provincial authorities were based in Danzig ( Gdańsk ), the provincial court was in the town of Marienwerder.

While the City of London was permitted to continue in existence largely unchanged, Westminster was merged with two neighbouring authorities to form a new London borough from 1 April 1965.