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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 568

Israeli courts

Otzma Yehudit MK Zvika Fogel leads the Knesset's National Security Committee meeting, in Jerusalem, February 27, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 18, 2024, 4:11 am
Hardline MKs push bill to allow curbs on movement, speech based on ‘confidential intel’
Backers say legislation equips police with tools to fight organized crime; expert warns it risks ‘harsh infringements of very basic human rights’
By Sam Sokol
An Indian crested porcupine. (Rufus46, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons)
February 9, 2024, 5:11 pm
Taibe man given 27 months behind bars for illegally hunting porcupines
Israel Nature and Parks Authority, which has long campaigned for stiffer sentences for animal abuse, welcomes judgment by Kfar Saba court, which also fined man NIS 25,000
By Sue Surkes
This handout photo shows Suprme Court President Esther Hayut, right, and Justice Minister Gideon Sa'ar, second right, at a ceremony on December 6, 2022. (Israeli Judicial Authority)
December 6, 2022, 9:21 pm
Chief justice slams plans to neuter court: Without independence we can’t do our jobs
Supreme Court President Esther Hayut takes on planned radical reforms by incoming coalition: ‘Judicial independence and neutrality… are the lifeblood’
By ToI Staff
This combination photo shows Benny Shlomo (top left) and the scene where Benny Shlomo and another man were shot in a suspected assassination in Azor, October 3, 2022. (Channel 13 screengrab, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)/(Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
November 14, 2022, 4:28 pm
Court releases prime suspects in hit on Israeli crime boss Benny Shlomo
Police to appeal the decision; move comes after two other suspects believed to have been involved in the murder were released last week
By ToI Staff
Likud MK David Amsalem attends a Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting on June 26, 2022. (Olivier FItoussi/Flash90)
September 2, 2022, 9:31 am
Likud MK says if party wins election he’ll reform ‘crooked’ judiciary, replace AG
David Amsalem demands to be justice minister if Netanyahu returns to office, advocating proposals that would curb court power and potentially allow ex-PM off graft trial
By Alexander Fulbright
Chief Superintendent Nisso Guetta arrives at the court in Rishon Lezion to hear his sentence after he was convicted of assaulting a protester and a journalist, August 9, 2022. (Flash90)
August 9, 2022, 1:14 pm
Police officer gets probation for using violence at anti-Netanyahu protest in 2020
Chief Superintendent Niso Guetta was convicted of using ‘excessive force without reasonable cause’ against a protester and a photographer at the Balfour protests two years ago
By ToI Staff
Yuval Carmi, a psychologist convicted of committing sexual offenses against least two of his patients, is brought for a court hearing at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on August 2, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 2, 2022, 11:25 am
Psychotherapist convicted of sexually abusing patients sentenced to 39 months
Yuval Carmi, 67, also ordered to pay total of NIS 130,000 as compensation to two of his victims; ‘I’m full of regret for what I did,’ he says after sentencing
By ToI Staff
Corals growing on construction piles in the port of Eilat. (Israel Nature and Parks Eilat District Ecologist, Dr Assaf Zvuloni)
June 13, 2022, 1:25 am
State-owned pipeline to pay NIS 250,000 for damaging corals, won’t admit liability
Court approves settlement deal between EAPC and parks authority for damage caused in 2016 to over 2,600 corals and other creatures in Red Sea
By Sue Surkes
Supreme Court Chief Justice Ester Hayut with outgoing Supreme Court judge George Kara, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on May 29, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 29, 2022, 7:02 pm
‘This wasn’t an easy time for me’: Arab Israeli Supreme Court justice Kara retires
Outgoing judge compares rampant crime to a contagious disease, urges increased enforcement; was among judges who convicted former president Katsav of rape
By Tobias Siegal
Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount, as reported by Channel 12 news, July 17, 2021. (Channel 12 screenshot)
May 26, 2022, 5:13 am
Judge rules against Jews who prayed at Temple Mount, accepting state’s appeal
District Court says right to freedom of Jewish worship on holy site ‘is not absolute, and should be superseded by other interests’; earlier ruling angered PA, Hamas and Jordan
By ToI Staff
Thousands of Muslim worshipers attend the first Friday prayers during the month of Ramadan at the Temple Mount complex in Jerusalem's Old City, Friday, April 8, 2022. (Sliman Khader/Flash90)
May 23, 2022, 6:59 pm
Authorities seek to tamp down tensions amid backlash over Temple Mount prayer ruling
After Hamas threats and international criticism, Judicial Authority says Sunday’s controversial decision in favor of Jews who prayed at holy site will not change status quo
By Tobias Siegal
A woman waves a Ukrainian national flag during a protest against Russia's military invasion of Ukraine, in Israel's Mediterranean coastal city of Tel Aviv, March 12, 2022. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)
March 14, 2022, 10:32 pm
Ukrainian woman to stay in Israel, judge rules, citing ‘human compassion’
Refugee, who was denied asylum in the past, describes her perilous journey from Kyiv to Israel
By Tobias Siegal
Spanish aid worker Juana Rishmawi at Ofer prison in the West Bank, on November 17, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 1, 2022, 4:36 pm
Israel to free Spanish aid worker jailed for funding Palestinian terror group
Parole board gives early release to Juana Rishmawi, who was sentenced to 13 months in November for activities with organization accused of funneling money to PFLP
By AFP
Gynecologist Guy Rofe. (Facebook)
January 4, 2022, 9:41 am
Senior gynecologist arrested after 15 women accuse him of rape, harassment
3 victims in their 20s have filed complaints against Guy Rofe, known for viral Instagram posts; in separate case, veteran gynecologist Elias Khoury convicted of raping 2 patients
By Michael Bachner
An illustrative photo of an El Al plane taking off from Ben Gurion Airport on September 3, 2014. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
December 29, 2021, 7:42 pm
Australian claims he can’t leave Israel until 9999 due to unpaid child support
Noam Huppert says he received a ‘stay of exit’ order from an Israeli court in 2013, and that a court demand for ‘future debt’ prevents him from departing country
By ToI Staff
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