Tag: Esther Hayut
Israel’s chief justice retires amid uncertainty over successor
Israeli Supreme Court President Esther Hayut retired on Monday, having reached 70 years of age, the mandatory age of retirement for Israeli justices.
Hayut has served as a judge for 33 years. She was appointed...
In first, all 15 justices to hear petitions against ‘reasonableness law’
All 15 justices of Israel's Supreme Court will hear the petitions asking them to cancel the "reasonableness law" that the Knesset passed last week, Supreme Court President Esther Hayut announced on Monday.
The hearing is...
Critics of ‘Citizenship Law’ ruling charge Supreme Court has ’emptied the law of meaning’
The Israeli Supreme Court’s July 21 ruling upholding a law under which convicted terrorists may be stripped of their citizenship has angered many in Israel’s nationalist camp, who argue that the ruling actually renders the law...
Israeli Supreme Court president blasts critics for ‘undermining’ rule of law
Israeli Supreme Court President Esther Hayut blasted critics of the court at the annual Israel Bar Association conference in Eilat on Monday.
“The undermining of the legitimacy of the courts and their judgements in effect...
Israel’s Supreme Court paves way for controversial Labor candidate’s Knesset run
Israel’s Supreme Court on Sunday overturned a ruling by the Central Elections Committee that banned Ibtisam Mara’ana-Menuhin, No. 7 on the Labor Party’s Knesset slate, from vying in the March 23 election.
Mara’ana-Menuhin, an Arab-Israeli filmmaker from...
Netanyahu, Gantz agree: New government to be sworn in on May 13
Israel will swear in a national unity government on May 13, agreed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz, late on Wednesday. The parliamentary process for legislating the...
Will the Israeli Supreme Court doom Netanyahu-Gantz unity government?
Israel’s Supreme Court has finished two days of hearings concerning the recent unity agreement between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz.
The hearings were launched after several groups, which...
Tension between Israel’s legislature and judiciary raises unprecedented questions
It really is all about the Benjamins. Pending any last-minute crisis, Israel may finally have an emergency unity government after a yearlong political deadlock and three elections. The new government—the precise terms of which...
Scandal rocks Israeli judicial system as senior member arrested for fraud
An unnamed senior Israeli lawyer was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of demanding sexual favors in exchange for judicial appointments. Two more suspects, including a female judge from the center of the country, were...
Netanyahu delays ‘Override Clause’ vote after consult with Supreme Court president
Israeli Supreme Court President Esther Hayut convinced Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to postpone a vote on a controversial Knesset bill that would enable legislators to override Supreme Court rulings on Knesset laws, saying she...