Tag: Kohelet Policy Forum
Surprised at anti-Israel hatred?
Around the world, the “Swords of Iron” war has brought tens of thousands of protesters out onto the streets, screaming about and condemning Israel. Their hatred towards the Jewish state, alongside shocking statements based...
Israel’s flawed gas deal with Lebanon has come back to bite it
Remember the agreement with Lebanon that Israel signed less than 18 months ago? An agreement we were promised would bring quiet and security along the northern border?
Under the current volatile security conditions along the border with...
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...
NGOs front and center in the battle over reforming Israel’s legal system
Much-needed reform that will correct an overreaching Supreme Court, and thereby make Israel more democratic, or a threat to the democratic values of the state that will destroy the political system’s checks and balances?
That...
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...
Is Israel undermining its own law with surreptitious payments to the PA?
The Israeli Security Cabinet’s decision on Sunday to withhold funding from the P.A. equivalent to the amount it disburses to reward terror could prove to be an empty gesture that undermines the law, if...