Law.117 Admission committees, together with other Israeli policies, make it impossible for Palestinian citizens of Israel to purchase or lease land in more than 700 Israeli towns,118 covering approximately 80 percent of the land in Israel.119 On 1 August 2004, four years after the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that the Kaadan family could not be denied the right to move to the town Katzir, the Israel Lands Administration made their decision No. 1015 entitled “recommendation procedures for accepting candidates to purchase leasing rights for lands in agricultural and community settlements.”120 This decision provides a framework for creating admission committees, which in community settlements are composed of a senior official from the settlement agency (either The Jewish Agency or The World Zionist Organization), a senior official from the Israeli Ministry of Housing and Construction, as well as representatives of the cooperative association, the regional council and the settlement body. In agricultural settlements the composition of the admission committees is determined by the governing bodies of the society itself.121 “The admission committees created by decision 1015 have the right to deny people the right to move to a community if the committee, among others, does not find the candidate suited to the social life in the community.”122 The admission committees operate in 695 agricultural and community towns, which account for 68.5 percent of all towns in Israel and approximately 85 percent of all villages.123 Following much criticism and legal challenges, admission committees were changed in 2010, but are still able to deny individuals the right to move to a community based on the arbitrary “suitability” criterion.124 117 Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, “Israeli Supreme Court upholds “Admission Committees Law” that allows Israeli Jewish communities to exclude Palestinian Arab citizens”, 17 September 2014. Available at: http://www.adalah.org/en/content/view/8327 118 Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, “Suggested items to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) for the List of Themes for the State of Israel”, 8 December 2011, page 10. Available at: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cerd/docs/ngos/ Adalah_Israel_CERD80.pdf 119 Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, “The Inequality Report: The Palestinian Arab Minority in Israel”, 2011, page 24. Available at: http://www.adalah.org/uploads/oldfiles/upfiles/ Christian%20Aid%20Report%20December%202010%20FINAL(1).pdf 120 Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, “Adalah to ILA: Cancel Criteria for Accepting Candidates to Agricultural and Community Towns which Discriminate against Arab Citizens of Israel”, 27 April 2005. Available at: http://www.adalah.org/en/content/view/6415 121 Ibid. 122 Ibid. 123 Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, “The Inequality Report: The Palestinian Arab Minority in Israel”, 2011, page 24. Available at: http://www.adalah.org/uploads/oldfiles/upfiles/ Christian%20Aid%20Report%20December%202010%20FINAL(1).pdf 124 Ibid. page 25 35