Tag: Yitzhak Amit

Critics point out that Levin, despite having significant political backing and the support of over two million voters, is not using his authority to act decisively.

Levin argued that it would not be appropriate at this stage to bring the matter of electing a Supreme Court president before the Judicial Selection Committee."

“Yitzhak Amit should not only be disqualified from becoming the President of the Supreme Court, but he is unfit to serve as a Magistrate's Court judge!"

"I share the position that the original proposal I submitted is the most correct. But this proposal does not have a majority in the Knesset."

The most crucial point about appointing the next supreme court president is that, by law, he or she would appoint the chair of a state committee to examine the failures of October 7, 2023.

The judge was right, of course. You can't run a country based on phantom laws. Say hello to your new Palestinian neighbors…

Turns out the ambitious Jerusalem municipality has it easier when it comes to sweeping illegal Arab squatters off its property.

For the Arabs, it's November 1947 all over again.

Frankly, this ruling revealed what an intellectual asset Justice Alex Stein has been to the Supreme Court, and how it takes a calm, conservative thinker to express liberal values the way they were intended by the 18th century's great thinkers.

Can the President assign this task to a defendant in a criminal lawsuit? We'll hopefully get the answer on Thursday this week.

"Ofer Cassif, Tibi and Zoabi, supporters of terrorism every one, are in, but Ben Ari, a Zionist Jew whose sons serve in the IDF, is out."

Justice Stein expressed a conservative approach according to which the High Court must refrain from intervening as much as possible in the decisions of lower courts.

Hamas is holding Israeli citizens captive while sending Hamas family members to Israel for medical treatment.

During the hearing, the squatters' attorneys made it clear that their clients were not willing to move too far from the current location of their shantytown, at most "a hundred or two hundred meters."

The prevailing assessment in both the legal political systems is that the law will be disqualified, especially in view of Attorney General Mandelblit's position.