Tag: Simcha Rothman
Israeli gov’t allocates $275,000 for defense of Oct. 7 terrorists
The Israeli government has already allocated around one million shekels (≈$275,000) in taxpayers’ money to fund the legal defense by private attorneys of Palestinian terrorists who invaded Israel on Oct. 7 and took part...
Pulse of Israel conference tackles Jewish identity, independence
Pulse of Israel hosted its second annual conference on Sunday evening, in a night dedicated to finding solutions to problems facing Israel and achieving “independence” after the war.
“We need to be who we are...
A fraught 48 hours portend major crisis for Netanyahu’s coalition
“Pull yourself together,” was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s warning to his government partners after 48 hours of coalition turmoil.
It all started after Shas, the Sephardi ultra-Orthodox party, demanded approval for the “rabbis bill.”...
Rothman: Supreme Court decision a ‘shame,’ but not time to re-legislate
In an unprecedented and controversial decision, Israel’s Supreme Court on Monday struck down the so-called “reasonableness law,” an amendment to a semi-constitutional Basic Law passed as part of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s now-shelved judicial...
Rothman: High Court ‘does not respect the judgment of the public’
"This is in effect an event where we take 15 judges, and lawyers, and conduct a debate on whether the State of Israel should be a democratic country," member of Knesset Simcha Rothman told...
Rothman to High Court: No right to interfere in legislative process
A tense exchange took place between Israel's High Court of Justice and member of Knesset Simcha Rothman during Tuesday's hearing on the “reasonableness law" as the latter told the court it had no right to intervene in...
Netanyahu: Israel is ‘far ahead’ of its enemies
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited an IDF Intelligence base on Tuesday together with the head of IDF Intelligence Maj.-Gen. Aharon Haliva and additional commanders.
The prime minister received an in-depth briefing on the efforts...
Judicial reform architect says part will pass into law
Israeli lawmaker Simcha Rothman, a leading figure in the coalition’s judicial reform initiative, said on Monday that some of the legislative package would pass into law regardless of the outcome of negotiations with the opposition.
“I...
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,...
Judicial reform bills pass first Knesset vote after raucous debate
The Knesset on Tuesday passed in first reading two pieces of legislation related to the government’s judicial reform plan following a noisy six-hour-plus debate that ended after midnight.
Both bills passed by a vote of...