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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 342

Israeli judicial overhaul

Mobileye co-founder and CEO Professor Amnon Shashua speaks at the Nasdaq exchange in New York after the Intel subsidiary went public, October 26, 2022. (Nasdaq)
Mobileye founder warns about how war, judicial overhaul hurt Israeli tech
By Sharon Wrobel
Prof. Amnon Shashua says that while Israelis are used to living in a routine of war, the uncertainty puts off foreign investors and clients, hurting the local tech environment
Activists protest against the government's planned judicial overhaul, outside the ultraconservative Har Hamor Yeshiva in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Homa, July 5, 2023. The sign, featuring leading members of the government, states 'You are the messianics of the destruction.' (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
September 8, 2024, 9:30 pm
Ministers urge revival of judicial overhaul after High Court rules against Levin
Smotrich claims court waging war against democracy; Ben Gvir says decision constitutes conflict of interest; opposition decries threat to rule of law, warns of ‘Jewish wars’
By Sam Sokol
Justice Minister Yariv Levin (right) attends a swearing-in ceremony for newly appointed judges along with Supreme Court Acting President Uzi Vogelman, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on June 23, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
September 8, 2024, 7:32 pm
High Court orders Levin to appoint new court president; he calls its ruling undemocratic
Liberal justice Isaac Amit now likely to become president of Israel’s top court; justice minister vows to boycott incoming president; ministers threaten to revive judicial overhaul
By Jeremy Sharon and Sam Sokol
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, September 8, 2024. (Screen grab/GPO)
September 8, 2024, 6:07 pm
Cabinet approves extending civil service commissioner’s term amid storm over replacement
Move comes after Attorney General Baharav-Miara opposed government attempts to have Netanyahu appoint new commissioner directly, bypassing selection committee
By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff
The Department of Justice seal at the Department of Justice in Washington, May 16, 2023. (AP/Jose Luis Magana)
September 6, 2024, 2:43 am
US: Russia sought to exploit judicial overhaul to divide Jews, influence ’24 election
Justice Department affidavit reveals disinformation plot to twist opinions of those invested in Jewish state in order ‘to rip Israel out of the general Western anti-Russian agenda’
By ToI Staff and Agencies
MK Simcha Rothman at the Israel Bar Association conference in Tel Aviv, September 3, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
September 5, 2024, 6:10 am
Right-wing MK who pushed judicial overhaul claims courts ‘helped’ Hitler
At legal conference, Religious Zionism’s Rothman met with walkout, trenchant heckling as crowd expresses anger over government efforts to neuter judiciary
By ToI Staff
Mobileye co-founder and CEO Professor Amnon Shashua speaks at the Nasdaq exchange in New York after the Intel subsidiary went public, October 26, 2022. (Nasdaq)
September 4, 2024, 9:08 pm
Mobileye founder warns about how war, judicial overhaul hurt Israeli tech
Prof. Amnon Shashua says that while Israelis are used to living in a routine of war, the uncertainty puts off foreign investors and clients, hurting the local tech environment
By Sharon Wrobel
President Isaac Herzog speaks at the Israel Bar Association annual conference in Tel Aviv, September 3, 2024. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
September 3, 2024, 1:25 pm
‘Don’t you dare’: Herzog warns against reviving judicial overhaul, pleads for unity
In speech to Israel Bar Association, president warns against fractures in society that weaken country’s resolve
By Lazar Berman
MK Hanoch Milwidsky attends a committee hearing at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 13, 2023. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)
August 29, 2024, 2:48 pm
Likud MK urges public to avoid courts in same way they avoid rocket-battered north
Hanoch Milwidsky skeptical time is ripe for renewed judicial overhaul push, but thinks people who are ‘not progressive’ should dump courts for arbitration or rabbinic tribunals
By ToI Staff
Justice Minister Yariv Levin (right) attends a swearing-in ceremony for newly appointed judges along with Supreme Court Acting President Uzi Vogelman, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on June 23, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 27, 2024, 2:12 pm
High Court tells Levin to quickly start process for appointing new court president
Top court says there is ‘no escape’ from filling the position after justice minister was given enough time to seek ‘broad consensus’ on the appointment, but failed
By Jeremy Sharon
Vehicles drive past a huge billboard depicting Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian (R) and slain Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh at Tehran's Valiasr Square on August 12, 2024. (Atta Kenare/AFP)
August 12, 2024, 3:55 pm
Daily Briefing Aug. 12: Day 311 – Iran, Hezbollah said to step up prep for striking Israel
Editor David Horovitz on how international media depicts IDF’s strike on terror command center in Gaza school, Justice Minister Yariv Levin’s push to revive judicial overhaul
By ToI Staff
Justice Minister Yariv Levin in the Knesset, July 24, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 11, 2024, 8:45 pm
In cabinet meeting, justice minister said to call to revive judicial overhaul plan
‘Time has come to make the change,’ Levin is quoted as saying of proposals that sparked mass protests last year; Lapid: We’ll block ‘judicial coup with all tools at our disposal’
By Sam Sokol
Justice Minister Yariv Levin (right) attends a swearing-in ceremony for newly appointed judges along with Supreme Court Acting President Uzi Vogelman, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on June 23, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 11, 2024, 7:29 pm
With negotiations over new High Court president stuck, Levin gets 2-week extension
Justice minister seeking to either get a conservative Supreme Court chief justice by overriding seniority system, or parachute a judicial overhaul architect into the top court
By Jeremy Sharon
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a cabinet meeting. (Maayan Toaf / GPO, undated photo)
August 11, 2024, 5:06 pm
Despite AG’s dissent, cabinet okays plan for PM to choose civil service commissioner
Netanyahu defends plan, says bureaucrats don’t ‘know better than the government’; watchdog warns move ‘threatens the independence and professionalism of the civil service’
By Sam Sokol
Illustrative image of employees working in the tech sector. (Hadas Porush/Flash90)
August 11, 2024, 1:43 am
Layoffs resume as Israeli high-tech industry struggles to thrive in dark times
Fraught politics and the Gaza war are harming Israel’s technology sector, but the US is also seeing a downturn, while Europe is closing in on both of them — and fast
By Tani Goldstein
Limor Son Har-Melech speaks at a far-right rally in support of soldiers arrested on suspicion of abusing Palestinian prisoners, Tel Aviv, August 1, 2024. (Twitter, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 1, 2024, 11:54 pm
Far-right MK: Justice officials who go after soldiers will be ‘prosecuted as traitors’
Limor Son Har-Melech makes threat at rally for soldiers arrested on suspicion of abusing Gaza detainee; Justice Minister Levin insists judiciary’s ‘excess power’ must be curbed
By ToI Staff and Jeremy Sharon
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