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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir during a '40-signature' debate at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on November 10, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 17, 2026, 9:19 pm
High Court postpones hearing for petitions demanding Ben Gvir be fired for abuse of power
Delay means case will be heard by judge who is likely more favorable to Netanyahu’s position; Ben Gvir threatens ‘constitutional crisis’ if court rules he must be dismissed
By Jeremy Sharon and Ariela Karmel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's chief of staff, Tzachi Braverman, attends a hearing during the premier's graft trial at the Tel Aviv District Court on December 18, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
February 22, 2026, 4:25 pm
Supreme Court refuses to allow PM’s chief of staff to appeal his release conditions
Judge says Braverman still barred from contacting Netanyahu or suspects in obstruction case, and from leaving country, after he asked to be allowed to begin role as envoy to UK
By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Supreme Court President Isaac Amit (center), together with Deputy President Noam Sohlberg (left) and Justice David Mintz, preside over a hearing on petitions against the appointment of David Zini as head of the Shin Bet, November 18, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 3, 2026, 11:02 pm
High Court overturns president’s ruling on appointment process for Civil Service head
Judges ruled last year that government must use a competitive process to appoint Civil Service commissioner, but expanded panel determines there is no such obligation
By Jeremy Sharon
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a press conference with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz in the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, Oct. 28, 2023. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP)
October 19, 2025, 12:16 pm
Government said working to appoint own Oct. 7 inquiry, angering bereaved families, opposition
Government commission would also examine ‘role’ of protest movement and High Court in Hamas invasion; critics, urging state commission, accuse Netanyahu’s coalition of seeking to investigate itself
By Jeremy Sharon
A Palestinian stands on an Israeli tank at the border fence near the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip after some 3,000 Hamas terrorists burst through the border and entered Israel, slaughtering some 1,200 people, October 7, 2023. (Yousef Mohammed/Flash90)
October 15, 2025, 8:17 pm
‘No real argument’ against need for state inquiry into Oct. 7, High Court tells government
Top court tells government to inform it within 30 days if it will establish a state commission of inquiry into devastating Hamas invasion; ‘everyone deserves the truth’ says NGO
By Jeremy Sharon
Relatives of some of those killed and taken hostage on October 7 at a hearing at the High Court of Justice for a petition calling for the establishment of a state commission of inquiry, Jerusalem, December 11, 2024 (Courtesy October Commission)
December 11, 2024, 4:10 pm
High Court hears petition for Oct. 7 state inquiry: ‘Most terrible failure ever here’
Bereaved father: ‘How can the government not want to know how children went dancing and did not return?’; brother of fallen soldier to court: ‘Don’t let them escape responsibility’
By ToI Staff and Sam Sokol
File: Israeli security forces demolish the house of a Palestinian terrorist who carried out a shooting attack in the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba, in the West Bank city of Hebron, February 16, 2023. (Hashlamoun/Flash90)
March 20, 2024, 7:19 pm
In first, High Court approves home demolition for terror attack when victim survived
Justice Mintz rules severity of attack means implementation of demolition policy still appropriate
By Jeremy Sharon
Coalition lawmakers crowd around Justice Minister Yariv Levin to take a celebratory selfie in the Knesset plenum, as they pass the first of the coalition's judicial overhaul laws, the so-called "reasonableness law", on July 24, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 2, 2024, 1:25 am
Levin declares High Court ‘won’t stay our hand’ after justices annul overhaul law
Justice minister sets up potential standoff between government branches as coalition supporters fume; Gantz says decision must be respected
By ToI Staff and Jeremy Sharon
Supreme Court President Esther Hayut and all 14 other judges hear petitions against the reasonableness limitation law, September 12, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
January 1, 2024, 10:57 pm
In historic ruling, High Court strikes down key judicial overhaul legislation
In 8 vs 7 decision, justices rule that reasonableness law undermines Israel’s democratic character; 13 justices assert court’s right in principle to strike down Basic Laws
By Jeremy Sharon
Minister Aryeh Deri attends a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 15, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 20, 2023, 10:54 am
How 3 decades of Deri’s legal troubles now see Israeli judicial independence at risk
It was the Shas leader’s corruption imbroglio in 1993 that helped launch the right’s war on judicial activism, a war that now stands to cripple the courts
By Haviv Rettig Gur
File: David Mintz poses inside his business, Tofutti, in Cranford, NJ, Aug. 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
March 3, 2021, 9:33 pm
David Mintz, who invented Tofutti as a dairy substitute for kosher meals, dies
Jewish entrepreneur was 89; his tofu-based non-dairy ice cream became a hit in Jewish households, allowing observant people to have the cold dessert even after eating meat
By Gabe Friedman
Supreme Court judge David Mintz attends a ceremony in Jerusalem, on June 13, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 15, 2018, 10:19 am
Supreme Court justice escapes assault in West Bank
Judge David Mintz said to drive off after three Palestinians block his car, approach him with hammers
By Stuart Winer
Retired Justice Elyakim Rubinstein (R) speaks with Justice Salim Joubran at the Supreme Court during a meeting of the Israeli Judicial Selection Committee at the Ministry of Justice in Jerusalem on February 22, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90)
June 12, 2017, 8:24 pm
Arab judge appointed vice president of Supreme Court
Justice Salim Joubran replaces retiring Elyakim Rubenstein; will serve in position until his own retirement in August
By ToI Staff
Israeli policemen stand guard as bulldozers demolish homes in the unrecognized Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran in the Negev desert, on January 18, 2017. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)
February 24, 2017, 3:27 pm
Now you won’t rush to judgment?
After being quick to cry terror over the deadly Umm al-Hiran car incident, the police, politicians and some of the press are suddenly willing to wait for all the facts before admitting if they were wrong, while others aren’t shy about correcting the record
By Joshua Davidovich
Illustrative: A meeting of the Judicial Selection Committee at the Justice Ministry in Jerusalem on February 22, 2017, with justice minister Ayelet Shaked, chief justice Miriam Naor, finance minister Moshe Kahlon and members of the committee (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 23, 2017, 3:48 pm
Shaked has her day in court
The announcement that 3 conservative judges will assume a role in Israel’s most important, and traditionally liberal, judicial institution leads some to celebrate and others to wallow in fear
By Adiv Sterman
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