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Israeli travelers who had been stranded in South America due to coronavirus travel restrictions arrive at Ben-Gurion International Airport from São Paolo through New York on March 23, 2020. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Israel’s High Court rules travel restrictions unconstitutional

Israel’s High Court of Justice excoriated the government on Wednesday over its handling of air travel during the coronavirus pandemic, ruling that the restrictions it imposed on entering and exiting the country were unconstitutional. In...
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Conversion cannot be taken lightly

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The dramatic ruling on Monday by Israel’s High Court of Justice, ordering the state to recognize non-Orthodox conversions, evoked natural outrage in the haredi community—for how does the court dare weigh in on a religious tradition?...
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Dramatic conversion ruling inflames Israel’s political debate

Israel’s High Court of Justice sparked controversy on Monday with a landmark ruling on non-Orthodox conversion, evoking outrage on the right and accolades from the left. Right-wing parties panned the decision ordering the state to recognize Reform and...
Esther Hayut, president of Israel's Highest Court, the Supreme Court, March 14, 2019. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Israel’s High Court: Reform, Conservative conversions in Israel valid for ‘Law of Return’

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The Israeli Supreme Court on Monday issued a bombshell ruling that recognized conversions by the Reform and Conservative movements in Israel, therefore enabling Israeli citizenship under the “Law of Return.” The 8-1 ruling, which ended...
Muhammad Cabha, the main suspect in the murder of Esther Horgen. Credit: ISA.

Israel’s High Court of Justice votes to demolish house of Esther Horgen’s killer

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Israel’s High Court of Justice voted on Wednesday to demolish part of the home lived in by the murderer of Esther Horgen. Horgen, 52 and the mother of six children, was killed in late December by Muhammad Cabha after...
Israeli yeshivah student and Israel Defense Forces recruit Dvir Sorek was found stabbed to death near Kibbutz Migdal Oz in Gush Etzion on Aug. 8, 2019. Credit: Courtesy.

Israel’s High Court orders IDF to halt demolition of Dvir Sorek killer’s home

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Israel’s High Court of Justice on Monday overturned a demolition order against the home of one of the terrorists convicted for the murder of yeshiva student Dvir Sorek in Gush Etzion in August 2019. This marks...
The Knesset plenum hall in Jerusalem, on Feb. 10, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

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...
Israeli Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut arrives at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on May 3, 2020, to hear a petition against the coalition agreement between the Blue and White and Likud parties. Photo: Oren Ben Hakoon/POOL.

Ahead of High Court rulings, Likud spells out ‘red lines’

Following High Court hearings earlier this week of petitions challenging Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ability to form a government and the unity deal between Netanyahu’s Likud and Benny Gantz’s Blue and White Party, a senior...
Israelis watch a Supreme Court session on petitions filed against the proposed government, outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, on April 3, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Israel’s High Court hears petitions against Netanyahu’s continued rule

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Israel’s High Court of Justice began hearing petitions on Sunday seeking to bar incumbent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from forming a government, including a national-unity coalition with Blue and White leader Benny Gantz,...
Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit with Supreme Court president Justice Esther Hayut, at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, on March 4, 2020. Photo by Flash90.

Mandelblit to High Court: No legal barrier to Netanyahu serving as prime minister

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Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit told the country’s High Court of Justice on Thursday that in his opinion there is no legal obstacle Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu forming a government and serving as...