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Topic: Israel Supreme Court

May 31, 2013
1:19 am

Rabbi Miri Gold in front of the 'Aron Kodesh' at Kibbutz Gezer's Kehilat Birkat Shalom (photo credit: Amanda Borschel-Dan)

Non-Orthodox city rabbis to be funded by state

In major victory for Reform movement, Ministry of Religious Services announces drastic changes in how community rabbis chosen

By Lazar Berman

May 30, 2013
7:55 pm

In victory for Reform Judaism, non-Orthodox rabbis to be funded by state

Ministry of Religious Services will allow Reform and Conservative rabbis, including women, to hold official positions

By Lazar Berman

May 21, 2013
2:10 pm

Supreme Court Judge Salim Joubran, February 17, 2009. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Israeli Arab judge to chair elections committee

Salim Joubran will preside over local council votes in October

By Stuart Winer

May 16, 2013
1:58 pm

Bikini mud bath (illustrative photo credit: screen capture Dannie Riel/Youtube)

Judge gets down and dirty with lawyers

Magistrate in trouble for telling female lawyers they’d soon don bikinis and get in a mud bath

By Aaron Kalman

April 11, 2013
10:00 pm

Israel's Supreme Court, in Jerusalem (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90/File)

Renowned Israeli architect Ram Karmi dies at 82

From the web Designer of Supreme Court, new Ben-Gurion Airport and Tel Aviv’s Central Bus Station passes away

April 9, 2013
1:49 pm

Illustrative photo of a wedding (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Rabbinical courts given leave to lock up recalcitrant husbands indefinitely

Women’s groups hail landmark decision that will turn up the heat on men who refuse to grant their wives a divorce

By Asher Zeiger

February 21, 2013
9:24 am

The Ayalon Prison complex in Ramle, central Israel, Thursday, February 14 (photo credit: AP/Ariel Schalit)

‘Zygier hung dead for an hour before jailers found him’

Prison guards reportedly fell asleep at the monitors and didn’t notice their charge had committed suicide

By Ilan Ben Zion and Ron Friedman

February 20, 2013
6:17 pm

Supreme Court rejects hunger striker’s release appeal

Attorney representing Ayman Sharawneh says court instructed him to seek redress from a military committee first

February 20, 2013
6:45 am

Prison staff may pay the price for Zygier suicide

Two officers and two guards could face criminal charges for negligence following release of investigation report

By Ron Friedman

February 19, 2013
4:33 pm

A screenshot from the Australian television program on Zygier. (Screenshot: ABC news via YouTube)

‘Zygier hanged himself from a wet sheet in the shower’

Court releases part of investigation into Mossad agent’s death, concludes that it was suicide, but allows for legal possibility of other cause

By Asher Zeiger

February 17, 2013
9:28 pm

Ultra-Orthodox Jews ride in one of Jerusalem's segregated Egged buses in 2009 (photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Police arrest man who ordered woman to back of bus

Ultra-Orthodox passenger harassed 22-year-old journeying from Safed to Ashdod

By Times of Israel staff

February 15, 2013
7:56 pm

Ultra-Orthodox men order woman to rear of bus

22-year-old calls the cops after two men demand she move to different seat during a journey from Safed to Ashdod