Tag: Israeli Supreme Court
Supreme Court to hear petitions against ‘reasonableness law’
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...
High Court justices cut trip short to study petitions against reform law
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...
Long-overdue judicial reform process finally underway
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...
The showdown in Israel continues as judicial reform advances
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...
High Court to hear petition demanding Netanyahu’s removal
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...
As they attack Israeli judiciary reform, Biden, Democrats undermine US Supreme Court
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...
Former Israeli Supreme Court Justice Jacob Turkel dies
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
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?...
High Court ends Orthodox monopoly on conversion for adoption
After a 20-year legal battle, the High Court of Justice on Sunday ended a practice whereby non-Jewish children adopted in Israel have to undergo an Orthodox conversion to Judaism.
The nine-justice panel issued its ruling...
Reform supporters rally outside former Supreme Court chief’s home
Hundreds of Israelis joined a “freedom march” on Wednesday night that concluded with a demonstration outside the Tel Aviv home of former Supreme Court President Aharon Barak.
Protesters held placards calling the court a “dictatorship”...