Tag: Israeli Supreme Court
Israeli High Court OKs house demolition for terrorist who failed to kill
Israel’s Supreme Court, sitting as the High Court of Justice, on Wednesday sanctioned the demolition of a Jerusalem home belonging to a terrorist who shot and wounded two policemen on Oct. 12.
Khaled Abdel-Fattah, from the northern...
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...
High Court to continue hearing petitions against recusal law
Israel's Supreme Court, sitting as the High Court of Justice, will hold its second hearing on petitions calling for it to strike down the "recusal law," which limits the court's ability to declare a...
Rothman: High Court ‘does not respect the judgment of the public’
"This is in effect an event where we take 15 judges, and lawyers, and conduct a debate on whether the State of Israel should be a democratic country," member of Knesset Simcha Rothman told...
Rothman to High Court: No right to interfere in legislative process
A tense exchange took place between Israel's High Court of Justice and member of Knesset Simcha Rothman during Tuesday's hearing on the “reasonableness law" as the latter told the court it had no right to intervene in...
Supreme Court hearing on ‘reasonableness’ law kicks off
Israel's Supreme Court, sitting as the High Court of Justice, convened on Tuesday to consider petitions against the so-called "reasonableness" law, an amendment to Basic Law: The Judiciary passed by the Knesset in July.
The hearing,...
‘Don’t trample our vote’: Reform supporters rally in Jerusalem
Tens of thousands of Israelis gathered near the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on Thursday evening to demonstrate in favor of judicial reform.
Protesters voiced opposition to the court's decision to weigh in on legislation related...
Justice Elron launches bid for Supreme Court presidency
In an unprecedented move, conservative Israeli Supreme Court judge Yosef Elron on Wednesday declared his intention to run for the position of chief justice. The current chief justice, Esther Hayut, retires in mid-October.
"I hereby...
Netanyahu: ‘There won’t be a civil war’ over judicial reform
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assured NBC News on Monday that wherever the debate in Israel over his government’s judicial reform effort leads, it won’t be to violence.
“There won’t be civil war. I guarantee you that,”...
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...