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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 623

Neal Hendel

Chief Justice Esther Hayut, hearing petitions against the position of alternate prime minister at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, on October 27, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 12, 2020, 9:51 pm
High Court signals it could nullify legislation at core of Netanyahu-Gantz deal
In dramatic move that could send Israel to elections or even a constitutional crisis, judges give government 21 days to defend Basic Law changes propping up power-sharing coalition
By Michael Bachner
Chief Justice Esther Hayut (R) and High Court Justice Hanan Melcer arrive to a hearing on petitions against the position of alternate prime minister, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, October 27, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 27, 2020, 5:31 pm
High Court swats ‘political’ challenges to legality of alternate PM post
Chief justice says petitioners must make legal arguments about why Netanyahu-Gantz power-sharing deal should be struck down, but no ruling announced
By Michael Bachner
An Israeli patient waits in the corridor of the Barzlai Medical Center in Ashkelon, southern Israel, February 15, 2012. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)
April 30, 2020, 4:06 pm
High Court rules hospitals can’t stop visitors bringing in bread during Passover
Ruling says guards can’t search belongings of visitors or make remarks about bringing in food that isn’t kosher for Passover; draws immediate rebuke from ultra-Orthodox lawmakers
By ToI Staff
Shas party chairman Interior Minister Aryeh Deri addresses supporters at the Shas party event for the Jewish new year in Jerusalem on September 24, 2019. (Flash90)
March 12, 2020, 12:27 pm
Shas’s Deri calls for ‘national emergency government’ to tackle coronavirus
Blue and White’s Lapid says Netanyahu doesn’t want unity: ‘He has made a decision to go to 4th elections’
By Raoul Wootliff
Central Elections Committee chairman Supreme Court Justice Neal Hendel, left, hands the official results of the elections to the 23rd Knesset to President Reuven Rivlin, at the President's House, March 11, 2020. (Mark Neyman/GPO)
March 11, 2020, 1:17 pm
Receiving election results, Rivlin again pushes his unity government proposal
After three elections in a year, president expresses fervent hope that it will be his successor who formally accepts the results of the next one
By ToI Staff
An Israeli man casts his ballot at a polling station in Rosh Haayin, on March 2, 2020 (Jack Guez/AFP)
March 6, 2020, 1:23 pm
Likud says will petition High Court to allow it to fully review vote count
Central Elections Committee dismisses implication by Netanyahu’s party that tally after Monday’s election was tampered with for political reasons
By ToI Staff
A Likud party supporter holds a campaign poster featuring then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market on April 7, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 10, 2020, 3:08 pm
In vast breach, Likud campaign leaks ID, phones, addresses of all Israeli adults
Elections Committee hears urgent petition to bar use of database of all 6.5 million voters, including info on political leanings, after the data was exposed online
By ToI Staff
The United Torah Judaism party registering its slate with the Central Elections Committee, January 15, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussil/Flash90)
January 15, 2020, 4:40 pm
Elections committee registers parties for March vote as slates finalized
Parties big and little squeeze in under the deadline; newly formed all-women party says it seeks to increase female representation in Knesset
By Raoul Wootliff
Supreme Court Justice Neal Hendel on July 25, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 8, 2019, 4:22 pm
Supreme Court judge Neal Hendel chosen to head Central Election Committee
Chief justice informs Knesset speaker of decision, with fresh national vote likely to be called this week for March; predecessor Hanan Melcer had said ‘no chance’ he’d do it again
By ToI Staff
Protesters fly Palestinian flags and carry posters with pictures of Sami Abu Diak, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Nov. 26. 2019 (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
December 6, 2019, 3:12 pm
Jordan says Israel released body of security prisoner who died in custody
Jordanian Foreign Ministry says remains of Sami Abu Diak arrived following the Hashemite Kingdom’s ‘intensive engagement’ with Israeli authorities
By Adam Rasgon
Supreme Court Justice Neal Hendel at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on April 23, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 29, 2019, 9:02 pm
Supreme Court judge sorry for offering condolences to dead terrorist’s family
Justice Neal Hendel says he ‘had no intention of hurting anyone’ when he made the comment while voiding deceased prisoner’s early release petition
By ToI Staff
Supreme Court Justice Neal Hendel on July 25, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 28, 2019, 9:45 pm
Outrage after Supreme Court justice offers condolences to family of terrorist
US-born jurist Neal Hendel later amends ruling in which he told relatives of Sami Abu Diak, who recently died of cancer in jail, that he ‘shared in their sorrow’
By ToI Staff
Mourners carry the body of Mohammed Aqal, a Palestinian assailant killed after carrying out a stabbing attack on a Border Police officer, during his funeral in the West Bank village of Beit Ula on December 16, 2017. (AFP Photo/ Hazem Bader)
November 28, 2019, 3:16 am
Bid to hold all terrorists’ bodies captive may rest on shaky legal ground
Supreme Court has upheld the government’s right to withhold remains, but only for the purposes of negotiations for return of IDF soldiers’ bodies, not for Bennett’s ‘deterrence’
By Judah Ari Gross
File: 2019 election ads by the far-right religious-conservative Noam party bear anti-gay messages on billboards outside Tel Aviv. The slogan reads: "Israel chooses to be normal." (Courtesy Noam party)
August 6, 2019, 11:16 pm
Judge says advertisers can’t refuse homophobic party’s campaign ads
Supreme Court Justice Neal Hendel rules a special law forbids companies from ‘discriminating’ between political ads during elections
By ToI Staff
Israel Bar Association former chairman Efi Nave is seen at a Tel Aviv court on January 16, 2019. (Koko/Pool/Flash90)
January 18, 2019, 5:33 pm
Suspicions former top lawyer helped intern pass bar exam in exchange for sex
Police question woman as witness over whether scandal-plagued Efi Nave also helped her find a job in return for sex; intern said to deny she received benefits from relationship
By ToI Staff
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