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Ads by the far-right religious-conservative Noam party bear anti-gay messages on billboards outside Tel Aviv. (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
Thousands protest in support of the right of LGBT couples to adopt children at a demonstration in Tel Aviv on July 20, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
December 13, 2018, 11:08 am
Top court rules for gay parents in birth certificate fight
Interior Ministry had refused to record two adoptive fathers as parents in son’s birth record; ruling could influence separate appeals brought by lesbian and transgender parents
By TOI staff
Illustrative: Israeli snipers prepare for massive protests by Palestinians in Gaza and the potential for demonstrators to try to breach the security fence on March 30, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)
May 24, 2018, 11:00 pm
High Court rejects petitions to stop IDF using live fire in Gaza border riots
Justices say Hamas and other terror groups deliberately mix terrorists with civilians, including women and children, to confuse Israeli troops
By Sue Surkes
The body of Hamas terrorist Mazen Faqha is carried by members of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, during his funeral in Gaza City on March 25, 2017. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)
December 14, 2017, 6:21 pm
High Court: Israel can’t keep holding terrorists’ bodies without a law
Justices give state six months to either release remains held as a bargaining chip or pass legislation allowing the practice
By Judah Ari Gross
Supreme Court judge Noam Solberg, outside his home in Alon Shvut, January 7, 2012. (Uri Lenz/Flash90)
October 3, 2017, 12:29 pm
Supreme Court judge attended settlement jubilee event as ‘private citizen’
Justice Noam Solberg took part in ceremony marking 50 years of West Bank settlement despite court president ruling official representation ‘inappropriate’
By Raoul Wootliff
President of the Supreme Court Judge Miriam Naor, August 31, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 26, 2017, 4:04 pm
Supreme Court justices to skip settlement jubilee ceremony
Chief justice says it would be ‘inappropriate’ to send a representative to state ceremony in Etzion Bloc, raising ire among right-wing politicians
By Jacob Magid
Participants run along Israel's security barrier in the West Bank town of Bethlehem during the 4th Palestine Marathon on April 1, 2016. (AFP / THOMAS COEX)
December 1, 2016, 7:51 am
Israeli justices sued in Chile over West Bank security barrier
Palestinian Federation alleges Supreme Court guilty of war crimes; Jerusalem dismisses ‘publicity stunt’
By AP and TOI staff
Former prime minister Ehud Olmert leaves the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on February 10, 2016. (Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool)
September 28, 2016, 1:54 pm
Former PM Olmert to serve 8 more months in jail
‘It’s all over,’ says Supreme Court justice after rejecting Olmert’s appeal against conviction and sentence in Talansky affair
By Sue Surkes
Israel Supreme Court Chief Justice Miriam Naor (seated, center) during a court hearing, October 29, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 1, 2016, 4:05 pm
Will Supreme Court’s bite out of rabbinate monopoly be upheld?
In landmark ruling aimed to embrace diversity of the Jewish people, conversions outside auspices of Israel’s religious authority are to be acceptable for immigration status. But will this decision too be ‘castrated’ by a coalition of religious MKs?
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Former president Moshe Katsav walks out of the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on November 10, 2011, after the court unanimously upheld the Tel Aviv District Court's rape conviction. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
May 19, 2014, 2:50 pm
Supreme Court dashes Moshe Katsav’s hopes for retrial
Judge rules that former president, serving time for rape and sexual assault, offered no new material for consideration
By TOI staff
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