constitution

‎Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut (C) and other judges on the court, ahead of a hearing on March 14, 2019. (Hadas Parush/ Flash90)

May 28, 2019, 11:14 am

Israel is already in a constitutional crisis, leading law scholar warns

Suzie Navot is not against parliamentary immunity and wants the Knesset to be able to override the Supreme Court. But she’s also worried about a creeping erosion of democracy

By Raphael Ahren

Illustrative: Israeli Supreme Court justices at a hearing on March 13, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

May 17, 2019, 4:06 pm

It’s not the Supreme Court’s job to fix the Nation-State law

With no constititonal framework to establish how the branches of government work together, Basic Laws are of the people

By Or Bassok and Ruth Gavison

Humphrey Bogart, center, in a scene from the 1954 film 'The Caine Mutiny.' (Columbia Pictures/Getty Images, via JTA)

September 15, 2018, 2:42 am

How a Herman Wouk novel shaped the debate over removing an unfit president

The 25th Amendment to the US Constitution got a little inspiration from a passionate Jewish lawyer in ‘The Caine Mutiny’

By Ron Kampeas

July 23, 2018, 1:28 pm

Yedidia Z. Stern

Hmm, which is the country of the Jewish people?

Israel is now the only democratic nation-state in the world that doesn’t guarantee equality for all its citizens

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, seen with Education Minister Naftali Bennett at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on August 30, 2016. (Emil Salman/Pool)

November 16, 2016, 6:37 pm

Likud official: Netanyahu, not Bennett responsible for outpost bill

Member of ruling party says Jewish Home leader unfairly taking credit for initial Knesset approval of controversial settlement legislation

By Tamar Pileggi

A bronze statue of the Satanic icon Baphomet, currently residing in a shed outside The Satanic Temple in Salem, Massachusetts (Courtesy)

October 26, 2016, 4:36 pm

In haunted Salem, a Jewish church founder preaches the art of ‘Satanic’ social change

At a former funeral home in a town inextricably linked to witchcraft, secular Jew Malcolm Jarry opens a new heaquarters for his Satanic Temple, a controversial movement with up to 50,000 members worldwide

By Matt Lebovic

Khizr Khan, father of deceased Muslim US soldier Humayun S.M. Khan, delivers remarks on the fourth day of the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 28, 2016. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)

July 29, 2016, 5:38 am

Slain US Muslim soldier’s dad: Trump ‘sacrificed nothing’

At DNC, Khizr Khan, whose son died in a 2004 bombing, challenges Republican nominee: ‘Have you even read the Constitution?’

By AFP

Binali Yildirim, Turkey's prime minister and founding member of the governing AKP party. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

May 22, 2016, 1:39 pm

Erdogan ally set to be appointed Turkey’s new prime minister

Change comes as Turkish leader presses plan to create presidential system that will further consolidate his powers

By AP

May 19, 2016, 8:37 pm

Turkish technocrat tapped as new prime minister

AKP co-founder to run unopposed after Davutoglu quit; expected to promote Erdogan’s bid for more power

By DOMINIQUE SOGUEL

Turkish lawmakers and ministers at Turkey's parliament in Ankara (photo credit: AP)

April 26, 2016, 4:03 pm

Turkey’s parliament speaker calls for Islamic constitution

Move adds to concerns over creeping Islamization, ‘eroding secular values’ under Erdogan government

By AFP

Likud MK Oren Hazan holds a press conference in the Knesset on October 12, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

March 11, 2016, 4:06 pm

67 years on, the State of Israel is ‘legally named’… the State of Israel

Likud MK Oren Hazan touts his new law as a ‘mini’ Jewish state bill, but legal experts say country’s name was never questioned and law is entirely superfluous

By Marissa Newman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office, Jerusalem, May 10, 2015. (photo credit: Marc Israel Sellem/Flash90, Pool)

May 10, 2015, 10:52 pm

Netanyahu’s bid to add ministers runs into obstacles

Yesh Atid files High Court petition; Knesset legal adviser says committee that can approve such amendments yet to be staffed

By Stuart Winer

Israeli flags stand next to the menorah, the symbol of the State of Israel, at the Knesset (photo credit: Nati Shohat/FLASH90)

December 1, 2014, 5:41 pm

An idiot’s guide to the nation-state controversy

A bird’s-eye view of the facts, arguments and motivations behind the proposed legislation that is roiling Israeli politics

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, November 05, 2014. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

November 24, 2014, 4:52 am

In the Jewish nation-state kerfuffle, much ado over very little substance

The controversial proposal to pass a law defining Israel’s Jewish status threatens to fell the third Netanyahu government — and for what?

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Interim Egyptian President Adly Mansour, center, interim Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi, fourth from left, and Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, second from right, pray on the first day of Eid al-Adha, or Feast of Sacrifice, in Cairo, Egypt, in October. (photo credit: AP/Egyptian Presidency)

November 30, 2013, 6:13 pm

Egypt panel begins vote on draft constitution

50-member committee deciding on constitutional amendments as part of transition plan following July coup

By MARIAM RIZK and Tony G. Gabriel