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Thursday, January 3, 2019
Supreme Court head denounces efforts to ‘drag’ courts into politics
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleSupreme Court Justice Esther Hayut decries what she labels attempts to pull the judicial branch into Israel’s political battles.
“The efforts to drag the court system and its judges into politics and the efforts by officials to appropriate judges for themselves undermines the basic principles of the judiciary,” she says at a conference in Haifa.
Hayut also says “there are no left-wing judges or right-wing judges” in Israel and that judges are required to cut the “umbilical cord” connecting to them to those who supported their candidacy.
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