In 1953 Kol HaAm and its Arabic-language sister newspaper Al-Ittihad published a controversial article on the Korean War, which resulted in the Minister of Internal Affairs Israel Rokach, ordering the paper to close for 15 days.
The papers filed a petition to the Supreme Court, which ruled that the suspension had been wrongly issued and should be set aside.
[1] In doing so, the court reversed the holding in High Court Judgement 10/48 Zeev v. Gubernik that the objective of the Declaration of Independence was solely to declare the establishment of the state of Israel.
[3] In 1992, the principles of the Declaration of Independence were formally incorporated into Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty,[4] granting the declaration formal constitutional status.
What became known as the "Kol HaAm Decision" also set the precedent that newspapers could only be shut down if there was a "almost certain" danger to national security.