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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a Likud party faction meeting at the Knesset on May 7, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 7, 2018, 8:08 pm
Netanyahu says Jewish Home ‘burying’ Supreme Court override bill
Coalition leaders suggest compromise in the offing, after sparring over proposal to supersede judges' ability to strike down Knesset legislation
By Raoul Wootliff
President Reuven Rivlin, (C) President of the Supreme Court Esther Hayut, (L), and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, (R), at a swearing-in ceremony for new court judges at the President's Residence, Jerusalem, May 7, 2018. (Mark Neeman/President's Office)
May 7, 2018, 3:11 pm
Supreme Court president blasts ‘unprecedented assault’ on judicial branch
Esther Hayut denounces bill giving Knesset power to override court veto on laws, warns human rights will be left unprotected; Justice Minister Shaked says critics are overreacting
By Stuart Winer
Zionist Union faction head Avi Gabbay speaks at the Israeli Social Conference 2018 in Tel Aviv on May 1, 2018 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
May 6, 2018, 6:40 am
Netanyahu is turning Israel into Turkey, opposition chief charges
Zionist Union leaders warn of threat to democracy posed by law allowing PM to declare war without consulting cabinet, bid to hobble Supreme Court
By TOI staff
A view of the Israeli Supreme Court in Jerusalem (Flash90)
May 2, 2018, 2:16 pm
Supreme Court override clause paves the way to tyranny
Israel's High Court must be able to check and balance legislation, or we risk our basic protection of democracy
By Yohanan Plesner
An Australian woman wanted in her home country for child sex abuse crimes is seen at the Jerusalem District Court on February 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 1, 2018, 11:15 am
Australian TV airs covert footage of molester facing extradition from Israel
More than 200 hours of video show fugitive teacher was apparently faking mental illness to avoid being sent to Melbourne, where she faces 74 charges of sex crimes
By TOI staff
Israeli snipers prepare for massive protests by Palestinians in Gaza and the potential for demonstrators to try to breach the security fence on March 30, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)
April 30, 2018, 9:50 pm
Israel’s use of live fire in Gaza protests faces legal test
High Court begins hearing case as 6 human rights groups ask it to declare regulations as unlawful; defending its policies, state says it's not facing civilian protests
By Agencies and TOI staff
Doing taxes (Pixabay)
April 30, 2018, 11:30 am
Supreme Court ruling increases tax burden on multinational R&D units in Israel
Decision seen to reduce country's ability to attract global companies to operate locally and comes amid stiff competition for these firms
By Shoshanna Solomon
Illustrative. Palestinian protesters demonstrate and burn tires near the border with Israel in the Gaza Strip, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, on April 13, 2018. (Sliman Khader/Flash90)
April 29, 2018, 4:43 pm
State says use of live fire in Gaza protests within Israeli, international law
Responding to Supreme Court petitions, attorneys say rioting along border fence is part of the armed conflict against the country
By Stuart Winer and TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, with Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut, at the Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem, November 1, 2017. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)
April 29, 2018, 12:43 pm
Chief justice to PM: Bill for 61 MKs to overturn rulings ‘a danger to democracy’
Lengthy meeting between Esther Hayut and Netanyahu, as government weighs reining in Supreme Court, ends without agreement
By Raoul Wootliff
Protesters demonstrate against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on April 28, 2018 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
April 29, 2018, 6:42 am
Ahead of Netanyahu-Hayut meet, thousands protest bid to hobble High Court
Prime minister to sit down with court's president and justice minister amid push to limit its capacity to overturn laws
By TOI staff
A military helicopter searches for missing students near the Dead Sea, southern Israel, April 26, 2018. (Maor Kinsbursky/Flash90)
April 27, 2018, 1:59 pm
Flood of tears: 8 things to know for April 27
Deaths of 10 students in a flash flood near the Dead Sea leave the country in mourning at the senseless loss of life
By Adiv Sterman
April 26, 2018, 1:41 pm
When the Supreme Court liked the override clause
The justices applied an override to save Yitzhak Rabin's government, why not consider it for Netanyahu?
By Emmanuel Navon
Students from Bialik School, in South Tel Aviv, many of them children of African asylum-seekers, attend a pre-Passover seder in the schoolyard on March 20, 2018. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
April 25, 2018, 4:20 pm
How Netanyahu turned victory into all-around defeat in African migrant crisis
The prime minister secured a win-win arrangement, but scrapped it under pressure. Now all the asylum-seekers are staying, Israel is being battered, and his rivals smell blood
By David Horovitz
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) seen with Education Minister Naftali Bennett at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on August 30, 2016. (Emil Salman/POOL)
April 22, 2018, 2:01 pm
Jewish Home head calls vote on bid to hobble Supreme Court
Despite Netanyahu's bid to delay, Bennett says ministers will next week debate a clause allowing Knesset to re-approve laws nixed by justices
By Sue Surkes
Leader of the Zionist Union party Avi Gabbay and Zionist Union MKs hold torches at a protest against attempts to enact laws that bypass the High Court of Justice and public criticism of the court's intervention in the legislative process, in Jerusalem, on April 21, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 22, 2018, 5:03 am
Hundreds rally in Jerusalem against government bid to limit High Court’s powers
Protesters form human chain around judiciary building in demonstration organized by Zionist Union; thousands more protest corruption in Tel Aviv
By TOI staff
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