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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 529

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Activists with the pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel groups Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow hold a rally demanding a ceasefire in Gaza in the rotunda of the Cannon House Office Building on October 18, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)
January 20, 2025, 1:08 am
US attorney uses ‘lawfare’ to force $700K settlement from Jewish Voice for Peace
David Abrams makes a living off hunting alleged fraud by groups critical of Israel; in JVP’s case, the group allegedly misrepresented itself when applying for COVID relief funds
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters walk from Columbia University down to Hunter College, May 6, 2024, in New York City. (SPENCER PLATT / Getty Images via AFP)
May 8, 2024, 5:28 pm
Conservative US federal judges announce boycott of Columbia Law School graduates
University promises backing for its alums in face of hiring freeze over pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protests; insists they are ‘consistently sought out’
By Karen Sloan and Nate Raymond
Cardi B attends the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the "Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty" exhibition on Monday, May 1, 2023, in New York. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
August 4, 2023, 7:58 pm
Rapper Cardi B tweets, deletes picture appearing to fete Jewish lawyers
After posting Wikipedia photo of Haredi men, artist flogged for using Jewish lawyer trope to celebrate Las Vegas police deciding not to file charges over incident at concert
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Eyal Besserglick, February 2, 2023. (Screenshot/Channel 12; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
February 12, 2023, 6:55 pm
Lawyer exits race to head Bar Association after scandal over huge fee in murder case
Eyal Besserglick unrepentant about charging bereaved family $170,000, alleges ‘media lynching,’ says he’s quitting to protect his family, staff from harassment
By ToI Staff
Lawyers take part in a demonstration against the government's controversial plans to overhaul the judicial system, outside the Tel Aviv District Court on January 12, 2023. (Jack Guez/AFP)
January 12, 2023, 7:12 pm
Lawyers rally outside Tel Aviv court against ‘dangerous’ judicial overhaul
Hundreds of attorneys stage rare demonstration against Netanyahu government’s push to remake judiciary, which they call a threat to democracy: ‘We won’t let it happen!’
By AFP
'The Fight for Free Speech' (NYU Press) by author and free speech legal expert Ian Rosenberg. (Portrait photo by Larry Bercow)
June 6, 2021, 4:56 pm
US free-speech lawyer: Government legislation a threat to First Amendment rights
In his new book ‘The Fight for Free Speech,’ author, professor, and ABC News legal counsel Ian Rosenberg cites 10 contemporary cases that highlight how fragile that freedom is
By Cathryn J. Prince
Israeli attorney Amit Hadad attends the annual international Municipal Innovation Conference in Tel Aviv, on February 19, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 2, 2021, 7:00 pm
Netanyahu defense attorney to represent Meron victims’ families
Amit Hadad is one of the main lawyers for the PM in his corruption trial; his office reportedly set up emergency hotline for families to call, in later-deleted item
By ToI Staff
Attorney Avi Himi at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on June 5, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
June 19, 2019, 4:56 pm
Defense lawyer Avi Himi takes helm of scandal-battered Bar Association
Acting head beats out challenge by celebrity criminal attorney Zion Amir, following resignation of former head Effi Nave over fraud, sexual bribery allegations
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: This April 13, 2009 photo shows an employee of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, waiting for the front gate to be opened so she can enter. (AP Photo/Kate Brumback)
June 13, 2019, 4:21 am
A Jewish lawyer represents clients at the strictest immigration court in the US
Although these impoverished asylum seekers have little chance of winning, for the past two years Marty Rosenbluth has lived in small town Georgia to make their case in person
By Ben Sales
Debra Katz, left, looks on as Christine Blasey Ford testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee, September 27, 2018. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/via JTA)
May 26, 2019, 6:43 am
How Debra Katz became one of America’s top #MeToo lawyers
The ‘most feared’ civil rights attorney credits her landmark 1980s fight against sexual harassment, and her Jewish upbringing, with propelling her into a high-profile legal career
By Josefin Dolsten
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)
May 19, 2019, 1:03 pm
200 lawyers threaten to shut down legal system over PM’s bid to curb High Court
Attorneys reportedly to meet Monday to design campaign against planned reforms; organizer decries ‘Erdoganization process’ against justice
By Michael Bachner
Israel Bar Association former chairman Efi Nave (center) at a Tel Aviv court on January 16, 2019 (Koko/Pool/Flash90)
January 17, 2019, 4:28 pm
Israel Bar Association chief resigns amid sex corruption scandal
Efi Nave, suspected of advancing judicial appointments for sexual favors, says he doesn’t want his troubles to hurt the association
By ToI Staff
Israel Bar Association former chairman Efi Nave (center) at a Tel Aviv court on January 16, 2019 (Koko/Pool/Flash90)
January 16, 2019, 10:20 pm
Head of Israel Bar Association named as top lawyer in sex scandal
Effi Naveh, suspected of advancing judicial appointments for sexual favors, released to house arrest
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's lawyer Yaakov Weinroth seen in the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on February 24, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 16, 2018, 9:30 am
Top lawyer Yaakov Weinroth, defender of Israel’s leaders, dies at 71
Prominent defense attorney who represented Netanyahu, Liberman, former presidents and ministers in corruption cases, continued working almost to his last day despite cancer
By Michael Bachner
In this photo from September 24, 2018, attorney Morton Katz poses outside Superior Court in Hartford, Connecticut. (AP Photo/Pat Eaton-Robb)
October 1, 2018, 12:36 am
Connecticut lawyer, 99, will retire ‘when they carry me out of here’
Morton Katz, who has been an attorney since 1951, continues to work as a special public defender; hopes to soon take a computer literacy class
By Pat Eaton-Robb
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