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Demonstrators in Tel Aviv protest for the release of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip, July 2, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)
July 13, 2025, 4:33 am
From raids to ransom: Israel’s hostage policy has become Hamas’s sharpest weapon
Leaders once chose rescues over negotiations. But for 50 years, public pressure and new terror tactics have led Israel to pay ever steeper prices — and that’s unlikely to change
By Nava Freiberg
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
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the funeral service for former president of the Supreme Court Meir Shamgar at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on October 22, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
October 22, 2019, 4:53 pm
At Shamgar farewell, PM says amending role of Supreme Court is part of democracy
Netanyahu stresses that top court, whose powers he’s sought to curb, must stay independent; president, current chief justice also eulogize revered justice
By ToI Staff
Clifford M. J. Felig
October 22, 2019, 11:13 am
Clifford M. J. Felig
Justice Meir Shamgar: A life dedicated to the rule of law
The late former Supreme Court president upheld the primacy of law even when his personal sympathies lay elsewhere
Former chief justice Meir Shamgar at the Supreme Court building in Jerusalem, May 19, 2011. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
October 18, 2019, 11:11 am
Former Supreme Court president Meir Shamgar, Israeli judicial giant, dies at 94
Rivlin mourns a ‘founding father’ of legal system; he served on Israel’s top court for over 20 years, was also attorney general and IDF’s top legal official
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit at a July 2015 cabinet meeting, when Mandelblit was serving as cabinet secretary. (Emil Salman/Pool)
June 4, 2019, 1:31 pm
Instead of seeking immunity, could Netanyahu just fire the attorney general?
Law allows for axing the AG in case of substantial, ongoing differences of opinion, but PM doesn’t have much time, or justification, to pick such a fight
By Jacob Magid
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and then-cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit, at a cabinet meeting on January 4, 2015. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90/File)
January 1, 2019, 10:31 pm
TV: AG believes it his ‘duty to the public’ to rule on PM probes before election
Avichai Mandelblit has reportedly ruled out closing cases against Netanyahu, has conferred with former top legal officials who all agreed with his position on timing of decision
By ToI Staff
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit attends a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting in the Knesset, July 18, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
March 1, 2017, 9:19 pm
Attorney general won’t defend contentious outpost law in court
Mandelblit will allow a private attorney to represent the state against challenges to the Regulation Law, which recognizes illegal settlements
By Tamar Pileggi
The late Mishael Cheshin, who served in the Supreme Court of Israel from 1992 to 2006, seen participating in a discussion at the Israel Democracy Institute in Jerusalem. October 17, 2012. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
September 20, 2015, 11:58 pm
Rivlin eulogizes Mishael Cheshin, ‘poet of Israel’s legal world’
Influential former Supreme Court justice laid to rest near Tel Aviv, a day after his death at age 79
By ToI Staff
April 18, 2013, 9:08 am
Firestone named president of Genesis Prize Foundation
The annual ‘Jewish Nobel Prize’ of $1m. aims to honor individuals whose success has been informed by their Jewish values
With an image of a blindfolded Palestinian prisoner in the background, retired Lt. Col. Jonathan Livny reflects on his 23 years as a military judge. (Courtesy of Cinema Guild)
November 14, 2012, 6:59 pm
New film holds IDF judges, lawyers accountable to ‘The Law’
Opening Wednesday in the US, documentary cross-examines the men who established Israel’s legal approach to ruling the territories
By Nathan Burstein
Investigators work at the scene of the accident on Mt. Herzl (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)
April 23, 2012, 4:56 pm
Suspects in Mount Herzl tragedy released to house arrest
Levi, Varshebski, Tzuker and Sela to be detained at home until end of April
By Ilan Ben Zion
Shimon Peres (second from right) presents the President's Award on Thursday (photo credit: Uri Lantz/Flash90)
February 9, 2012, 12:47 pm
Presidential award handed out for the first time
Henry Kissinger, Zubin Mehta among recipients of the prize for outstanding contribution to the State of Israel or to humanity
By Aaron Kalman
President Shimon Peres (photo credit: courtesy President's Residence)
February 8, 2012, 12:20 pm
Shimon Peres to give out new Presidential Medal
The recipients of Israel’s latest decoration, which emulates the French Legion of Honor, will be announced Thursday
By Raphael Ahren
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