Tag: Israeli Supreme Court
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,...
Herzog in the crosshairs
In an op-ed on Friday in The Jerusalem Post, attorney Russell Avraham Shalev of the Kohelet Policy Forum explains what’s missing from Israeli President Isaac “Bougie” Herzog’s proposed judicial-reform compromise, despite its “many positive elements.”
“While Herzog sounded many...
How Americans can save Israeli democracy
President Joe Biden isn’t the first American president to intervene in Israeli politics. U.S. administrations have been doing so for decades with generally dismal results. Yet there was something different about the comments Biden recently made...
Why we desperately need Israeli judicial reform
In June 1992, with the defeat of Israel’s Likud government and the ascension of the Labor Party to power, the Palestine Liberation Organization, an outlawed terrorist organization in a state of total war against...
Democracy must be restored to Israel
“For years now, Israel has seemed to me like a man sleepwalking toward a cliff. Now we’ve fallen from it.”
So proclaimed author Hillel Halkin in a hysterical requiem for Israel published last week in The Jewish...