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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference on the planned construction of a new railway line from the northern city of Kiryat Shmona to the city of Eilat, in Jerusalem, July 30, 2023. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90

Netanyahu: ‘There won’t be a civil war’ over judicial reform

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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,”...
Supreme Court President Esther Hayut (center) arrives for a hearing, Dec. 8, 2022. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

In first, all 15 justices to hear petitions against ‘reasonableness law’

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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...
President of the Israeli Supreme Court Esther Hayut and fellow justices arrive for a court hearing on petitions demanding the annulment of the appointment of Shas leader Aryeh Deri as a government minister, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, Jan. 5, 2023. Photo: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Supreme Court to hear petitions against ‘reasonableness law’

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Israel's Supreme Court has decided to hear petitions against the "reasonableness law" that the Knesset enacted this week, with a court date set for September, according to the NGO Movement for Quality Government in...
Supreme Court President Esther Hayut in Nazareth, March 31, 2022. Photo by Eitan Elhadez-Barak/TPS.

High Court justices cut trip short to study petitions against reform law

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Several Israeli Supreme Court Justices visiting Germany cut their trip short and are returning to Jerusalem to study petitions opposition groups filed against the “reasonableness law” the Knesset passed on Monday. All 64 members of...
Anti-overhaul activists block a road during a protest against the government's judicial overhaul near the Knesset in Jerusalem, on July 24, 2023. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

Long-overdue judicial reform process finally underway

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Amid the largest and most well-funded protest movement in Israel’s history, the democratically elected governing coalition passed the first reform in a historic process aimed at bringing Israel’s activist Supreme Court in line with the judicial...
Supreme Court justices arrive for a hearing in Jerusalem on the appointment of Shas leader Aryeh Deri as a government minister, Jan. 5, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

The showdown in Israel continues as judicial reform advances

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Israel’s Supreme Court is either under attack or undergoing necessary reform, depending on who you ask. While there is talk of shelving the larger judicial reform package originally proposed by the government, a bill seeking...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, July 2, 2023. Photo by Marc Israel Sellem/POOL.

High Court to hear petition demanding Netanyahu’s removal

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Israel's Supreme Court, sitting as the High Court of Justice, agreed on Thursday to hear a petition calling for the removal of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from the premiership due to an alleged violation...
A security fence protefcting the U.S. Supreme Court on May 5, 2022, amid protests over the possible overturning of "Roe v Wade." Photo by Philip Yabut/Shutterstock.

As they attack Israeli judiciary reform, Biden, Democrats undermine US Supreme Court

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In recent weeks, U.S. President Joe Biden called the Supreme Court ruling that he lacked the authority to waive student debt “wrong,” adding, “This fight is not over.” When the Supreme Court ruled that...
Portrait of former Supreme Court Justice, Jacob Turkel, at his home in Jerusalem, on Jan. 25, 2023. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Former Israeli Supreme Court Justice Jacob Turkel dies

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Former Israeli Supreme Court Justice Jacob Turkel died on Monday at the age of 88. Born in 1935 in Tel Aviv to Austrian immigrants. He graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s law school in...

Blessed is the knower of secrets

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In Judaism, whenever one sees a gathering of 600,000 or more Jews, this blessing is recited: “Blessed are you, Hashem our God, king of the universe, knower of secrets.” What is implied by this blessing?...