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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara sign the guest book during a visit at the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on September 11, 2017 (Avi Ohayon/GPO)
September 20, 2017, 4:25 pm
Most Israelis don’t believe Netanyahus’ claims of innocence
Nonplussed by Iran threat, Israelis are optimistic, satisfied with life, see cost of living as more worrying than security situation, want ultra-Orthodox drafted into army
By Sue Surkes
A general view of the Supreme Court during a ceremony for outgoing Deputy Supreme Court President Elyakim Rubinstein on June 13, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 15, 2017, 1:17 pm
Who turns over the overturners?
As a new Jewish Home bill says the High Court's power to overturn laws -- which had been in overdrive -- is over, local papers turn in their own takes
By Joshua Davidovich
Portrait of the Jerusalem Supreme Court Judge, Esther Hayut, on May 10, 2017. On September 5, 2017,Judge Hayut was chosen to be the next President of the Supreme Court, to replace Miriam Naor. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
September 5, 2017, 1:54 pm
Esther Hayut unanimously elected next Supreme Court president
Top justice to assume post on October 26, when incumbent Miriam Naor retires
By Sue Surkes
Reform female and male rabbis pray together at Robinson's Arch, the Western Wall site slated for future egalitarian services, on Thursday, February 25, 2016. (Y.R/Reform Movement)
September 1, 2017, 2:27 pm
With muddled decision on Western Wall freeze, court appears wary to intervene
Bizarre High Court stance with no teeth asks the state whether the court can legally enforce the pluralistic pavilion plan; leaves petitioners 'with a lot of questions'
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Conservative Jews pray at the temporary egalitarian Robinson's Arch prayer pavilion at the southern end of the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on July 30, 2014. (Robert Swift/Flash90)
August 31, 2017, 6:32 am
Could a 1924 British Mandate law kill the Western Wall pluralistic pavilion?
A long-awaited High Court hearing will assemble petitioners on both sides of a frozen government decision to stake their claims at Judaism's holiest site
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Menny Naftali center, and Eldad Yaniv, far right, main organizers of a weekly protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in front of the home of Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit in Petah Tikva, August 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)
August 26, 2017, 9:26 pm
2,000 turn out as protests against Netanyahu resume near AG’s home
High Court had limited weekly protest calling for PM's indictment for corruption to 500 demonstrators; Likud coalition chief slams 'gross violation of court ruling'
By Alexander Fulbright
Menny Naftali (C), the former housekeeper of Prime Minister's Residence, and Israeli activist Eldad Yaniv (2R) outside the courtroom of the High Court in Jerusalem, August 24, 2017.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 24, 2017, 7:00 pm
High Court okays limited protests outside attorney general’s home
Rejecting police restrictions, judges say demonstrators' right to protest more important than Petah Tivka residents' complaints of disturbance
By Raoul Wootliff
A hearing about the Hadassah Hospital crisis at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, July 4, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
July 5, 2017, 1:30 am
Court allows some ex-Hadassah doctors to move to other hospital
Ruling after breakdown of mediation will see 2-3 pediatric cancer doctors transfer to existing clinic at Shaare Zedek
By Sue Surkes
File: Supreme Court Justice Elyakim Rubinstein seen in a photo from 2012. (Uri Lenz/FLASH90)
July 3, 2017, 10:32 pm
Mediator in Hadassah cancer ward crisis admits defeat
Retired justice Elyakim Rubinstein tells High Court talks at an impasse; court may impose solution
By Sue Surkes
Parents and young cancer patients from Hadassah Hospital, Ein Kerem march in protest against Health Minister Yaakov Litzman and hospital CEO Zeev Rotstein in Jerusalem, June 7, 2017. ( Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 3, 2017, 6:04 pm
Parents say health minister rebuffed proposals to end cancer ward crisis
As High Court-ordered mediation talks go into overtime, Hadassah parents say health minister's ego 'will kill our children'
By Sue Surkes
Supreme Court justice and Elyakim Rubinstein in his Jerusalem office (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
June 27, 2017, 2:52 pm
Over parents’ opposition, court orders mediation in Hadassah hospital crisis
Ex-Supreme Court judge Rubinstein will try to resolve dispute surrounding children's cancer unit
By TOI staff
Shlomo Ben Dor (R) and Pazit Ben Israel sit at the protest tent of the Hadassah Hospital hemato-ontology department in Sacher Park, Jerusalem, wearing signs which say 'I'm on hunger strike,' June 25, 2017 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 26, 2017, 12:23 pm
Ex-Hadassah cancer doctors beg parents to halt hunger strike
Request comes hours before High Court due to debate parents' petition to open new child's cancer unit at rival hospital
By Sue Surkes
Thousands of young Jewish boys wave Israeli flags as they celebrate Jerusalem Day, dancing and marching their way through Damascus Gate on the way to the Western Wall of Jerusalem's Old City, June 5, 2016. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
May 8, 2017, 10:09 pm
Left-wing group calls for Jerusalem Day march to avoid Muslim Quarter
Israeli revelers will be allowed to go through Arab neighborhood, but under strict time limits out of respect for Ramadan
By Judah Ari Gross
Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas gestures as he speaks during a joint statement with French President following their meeting on February 7, 2017 at the Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris. (AFP/Stephane de Sakutin)
February 7, 2017, 7:01 pm
Abbas: Settlement expansion ‘an assault against our people’
Hamas calls latest outpost legislation 'organized terrorism' by 'racist, extremist Jewish state'; Hezbollah urges Palestinian 'resistance'
By AFP and Dov Lieber
A man praying at the illegal outpost of Amona, with a view of West Bank settlements, on February 2, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 7, 2017, 12:34 pm
High Court orders demolition of 17 outpost homes, leaves others
Judges say West Tapuah houses built on private Palestinian land must be removed by June 2018; 18 other homes there may be allowed to remain
By TOI staff
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