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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 347

Attorney General's Office

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a cabinet meeting. (Maayan Toaf / GPO, undated photo)
September 15, 2024, 7:17 pm
Ministers decry incitement after PM compared to Hitler, demand action from deputy AG
At fiery cabinet meeting, Likud’s David Amsalem says attorney general ‘should have been fired on the first day of the government, and if not then on the second’
By Sam Sokol
A large billboard depicting an image of Benjamin Netanyhau with the words 'You're the head, you're guilty' in Tel Aviv, February 14, 2024 (Photo by Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
September 12, 2024, 1:37 pm
Daily Briefing Sept. 12: Day 342 – Can the PM stave off an ICC arrest warrant?
Legal reporter Jeremy Sharon reviews Netanyahu’s legal woes and justice minister’s latest battle; Arab affairs writer Gianluca Pacchiani discusses Egypt and Philadelphi Corridor
By ToI Staff
Israel Police officer Meir Suissa, right, prepares a stun grenade moments before he hurled it into a crowd of demonstrators during a mass protest in Tel Aviv, March 1, 2023. (Video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
September 6, 2024, 9:55 am
Court freezes promotion of indicted police officer, in blow to Ben Gvir
Judge says promotion of Meir Suissa, who threw stun grenade at protesters, breached police rules; Ben Gvir denounces terrible decisions, vows to keep backing ‘excellent officer’
By Jeremy Sharon
Left: National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir at a ceremony at the Ministry of National Security in Jerusalem, May 27, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90); Right: Police officer Meir Suissa orders demonstrators to leave as they are blocked from entering Tel Aviv's Hashalom train station on July 18, 2023. (Carrie Keller-Lynn/Times of Israel)
September 5, 2024, 8:21 pm
In damning submission, state says court should cancel promotion of indicted cop
State Attorney’s Office tells judges Ben Gvir’s promotion of Superintendent Meir Suissa ‘flagrantly violated’ police regulations, describes it as ‘underhanded opportunism’
By Jeremy Sharon
Then-attorney general Avichai Mandelblit, right, with Israel Bar Association then-chairman Efi Naveh during an event in Tel Aviv on November 9, 2017. (Flash90)
September 5, 2024, 7:16 pm
New recordings reveal Mandelblit heavily lobbied bar association chief to get AG job
Leaked phone calls from 2015 show close and constant coordination between Mandelblit and Efi Nave to influence selection committee, High Court
By ToI Staff
Israel Police officer Meir Suissa, right, prepares a stun grenade moments before he hurled it into a crowd of demonstrators during a mass protest in Tel Aviv, March 1, 2023. (Video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 29, 2024, 1:56 pm
Court orders state to respond to petition against promotion of indicted police officer
Jerusalem District Court declines to immediately issue interim order blocking Meir Suissa from assuming command of Tel Aviv police station; police won’t say if he’s begun new role
By Jeremy Sharon
Israeli soldiers and police clash with far-right protesters who broke into the Beit Lid army base over the detention for questioning of military reservists suspected of abusing Palestinian terrorist detainees, in Kfar Yona, July 29, 2024. (Photo by Oren Ziv / AFP)
August 11, 2024, 4:46 am
Almost 2 weeks later, probe opened into far-right rioters who broke into military bases
Police and IDF confirm investigation into storming of Sde Teiman and Beit Lid facilities by protesters decrying arrest of soldiers suspected of abusing Palestinian terror detainees
By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff
Far-right activists protest against the detention of nine Israeli reserve soldiers suspected of abusing a Hamas terror suspect, at the Sde Teiman military base near Beersheba, July 29, 2024. (Dudu Greenspan/Flash90)
August 5, 2024, 7:25 pm
A week on, no arrests or summonses against rioters who broke into military bases
Law enforcement officials silent on investigations, though Hebrew media report says police have begun collecting evidence
By Jeremy Sharon
Protesters clash with police outside an army recruitment conference for young ultra-Orthodox Jews in Tel Aviv, July 30, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
July 31, 2024, 6:40 pm
AG says army must also draft full-time yeshiva students, not just working Haredim
IDF’s decision to begin ultra-Orthodox draft with those not studying Torah full-time is legally problematic and constitutes ‘selective enforcement,’ argues deputy Gil Limon
By Sam Sokol
Israel's Ashkenazi former chief rabbi David Lau, right, and Israel's Sephardi former chief rabbi Yitzhak Yosef attend an event at a ceremony in Jerusalem, June 30, 2023. (The Chief Rabbinate of Israel)
July 5, 2024, 9:17 pm
A fight over women’s representation leaves Israel’s Jews without chief rabbis
The Justice Ministry’s demand that the rabbinate consider women for a position traditionally reserved for rabbis is key to the delay in succession for the first time in over a century
By Canaan Lidor
Opposition Leader Yair Lapid at his Yesh Atid party's weekly faction meeting in the Knesset, July 1, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
July 1, 2024, 10:23 pm
Lapid says Netanyahu orchestrating attorney general’s ouster to revive overhaul
‘We will not participate in pretending that Israel is a democracy if it ceases to be so,’ opposition leader declares, pledging to ‘not rule out any step or action’
By Sam Sokol
Ultra-Orthodox soldiers from the Hetz (Arrow) Company of the IDF's Paratrooper Brigade. (Courtesy of the Israel Defense Forces)
July 1, 2024, 3:58 am
The army must soon begin enlisting ultra-Orthodox men. How will that work?
IDF’s main options include a lottery to draft thousands of yeshiva students from Haredi mainstream, likely sparking major backlash, or to conscript from margins of the community
By Jeremy Sharon
An Israeli soldier and ultra-Orthodox Jews at the Western Wall on June 25, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
June 26, 2024, 2:02 pm
Daily Briefing June 26: Day 264 – Landmark decision to draft Haredim, starting July 1
Legal correspondent Jeremy Sharon discusses Haredi draft ruling, famine or not in Gaza, as environmental reporter Sue Surkes looks at energy grid concerns over war with Hezbollah
By ToI Staff
Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara arrives at a Jerusalem Day conference at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem, June 5, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 25, 2024, 10:02 pm
After court ruling, AG tells IDF to immediately start drafting 3,000 Haredi students
Notice also orders the military to draw up a conscription plan for enlistment beyond the initial figure, bans government yeshiva funding ‘directly or indirectly’
By Jeremy Sharon
Justices hold a High Court hearing on petitions against a police regulations bill pushed for by National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, on June 18, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 18, 2024, 7:51 pm
High Court raises constitutional concerns over law granting Ben Gvir police powers
Several judges challenge notion minister shouldn’t set general police policy and priorities, ask why petitioners’ concerns cannot be addressed by administrative intervention
By Jeremy Sharon
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