Tag: Israeli Supreme Court
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”...
High Court refuses to hear challenge to AG’s ‘neutrality’ on reform
Israel’s Supreme Court, sitting as the High Court of Justice, on Wednesday refused to consider and dismissed as baseless a petition alleging that the attorney general has a conflict of interest when it comes...
What the rioting left fails to see
On Sunday, a group of Israeli Air Force reserve F-15I pilots announced that due to their opposition to the Netanyahu government’s judicial reform bills, they would not participate in their squadron’s training mission this...
The urgent need for Israeli electoral reform
Democracy is currently being undermined in many parts of the free world.
In Israel, the threat is deeper and wider than either side will admit, given the near-civil war that has erupted over the government’s...
Justice minister hails proposed compromise on Israeli Supreme Court reform
Israel’s Minister of Justice Yariv Levin met on Wednesday with several prominent public figures who drafted a judicial reform compromise proposal to bridge the gaps between the sides.
Levin met with Israeli jurist Yuval Elbashan,...