Tag: Israeli High Court of Justice
‘Israel’s High Court has long ago taken over the discretion of the executive power’
Last Wednesday morning, then-Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein knew he was about to do something unprecedented. Not only in Israeli terms but also internationally, there aren’t many instances of the head of a country’s legislature resigning in...
Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein resigns over Supreme Court ruling
Longtime Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein resigned his post on Wednesday rather than implement a ruling by Israel’s High Court that the parliament must hold a vote to appoint a new speaker.
Addressing the Knesset in...
Israel’s Supreme Court orders vote, says Knesset speaker ‘undermining democracy’
In an unprecedented move, Israel’s Supreme Court ordered Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein to hold a vote for a Knesset speaker on Wednesday, just an hour after the speaker ignored a non-binding call by the court to...
High Court orders Edelstein to schedule a vote on his replacement by Wednesday
Israel’s High Court of Justice ruled on Monday that Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein must schedule a parliamentary vote on his replacement by Wednesday.
The Likud Party, to which Edelstein belongs, had previously said that a...
Israel’s High Court stays extradition to US of suspected Russian hacker
Israel’s High Court of Justice on Sunday ordered a temporary postponement of the extradition to the United States of Russian IT specialist Aleksey Burkov, who the family of an Israeli-American woman imprisoned in Russia...
Likud Party joins Otzma Yehudit to petition court to disqualify Joint Arab List
Members of the Likud and Otzma Yehudit parties submitted a petition to the High Court of Justice on Tuesday requesting that the Joint Arab List be barred from running in the upcoming elections on...
Shas party tells High Court that women can become members, run for office
The sephardic religious Shas Party has formally informed Israel’s High Court of Justice that its regulations do not prevent women from becoming members eligible to run for public office.
The statement came following a petition...