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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 343

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a cadets graduation ceremony at the IDF's officers school in southern Israel, known as Bahad 1, March 7, 2024. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
March 10, 2024, 7:23 pm
Citing war, petitioners seek to force PM to reveal his health status, succession plan
Survivors of massacre, MK and others turn to High Court, say Netanyahu hasn’t been transparent about his well-being, allege he’s shown worrying signs, including ‘drooping eyelids’
By Renee Ghert-Zand
National Security Itamar Ben Gvir leads a faction meeting of his Otzma Yehudit party at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on February 19, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 21, 2024, 3:07 pm
High Court rejects petition to disqualify far-right Ben Gvir as a minister
Panel of three judges find that despite Otzma Yehudit leader’s checkered past, his appointment to cabinet is not ‘unreasonable in the extreme’
By Jeremy Sharon
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Justice Minister Yariv Levin at the opening of the summer session of the Knesset, on May 1, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 1, 2023, 7:56 pm
High Court rules PM was not in contempt by saying he’d involve himself in overhaul
Judges accept attorney general’s position, say PM must not be involved in legislation due to conflict of interest, but reject assertion he was in breach of court order
By ToI Staff
Tens of thousands of Israelis protest against the government's planned judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv, January 21, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
February 7, 2023, 6:19 pm
In petition, leading academics warn judicial shakeup will harm Israel’s security
Hebrew University professor behind letter with over 240 signatories says Nobel Prize-winning French economist who couldn’t sign asked Macron to protest overhaul to Netanyahu
By ToI Staff
Artists' impression of cable cars crossing Jerusalem's Hinnom Valley from a promotional video. (YouTube screenshot)
May 15, 2022, 6:49 pm
High Court rejects petitions against plan to build cable car to Jerusalem’s Old City
Judge says court only intervenes when planning process is flawed; as legal opposition route closes, opponents of plan vow to launch public campaign
By Sue Surkes
An oil tanker docked at the Europe Asia Pipeline Company's port, close to the coral reef nature reserve of Eilat in southern Israel. (Society for the Protection of Nature)
May 5, 2021, 11:08 am
Green groups ask High Court to halt secret UAE oil deal signed by state company
Deal signed by Europe Asia Pipeline Company with Emirati consortium ‘invalid’ because it wasn’t approved by government or opened for consultation with public, petition charges
By Sue Surkes
Fabien Azoulay, a French Jewish gay man serving a prison sentence in Turkey for drug offenses. (Courtesy of the Azoulay family via JTA)
April 14, 2021, 8:26 am
French Jewish gay man harassed in Turkish prison, family says
Fabien Azoulay, who is serving 16 years for buying drugs online, threatened with violence; 92,000 sign petition calling for Macron to intervene
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Police detain protesters at a rally against police violence following the death of 19-year-old Solomon Tekah in Tel Aviv, July 3, 2019. (Neuberg/Flash90)
January 27, 2021, 8:08 pm
High Court: Police can only demand ID cards if ‘reasonable suspicion’
Court orders law enforcement to submit new regulations specifying when officers can ask for IDs, after petition charging discrimination against people of Ethiopian origin, Arabs
By Sue Surkes
Interior Ministry Aryeh Deri in an interview with the ultra-Orthodox news site Kikar HaShabbat, broadcast on May 9, 2020. (Screenshot/Kikar HaShabbat)
December 24, 2020, 7:08 pm
Watchdog says Interior Ministry has ‘sewn up’ food aid criteria to suit Haredim
As 3rd lockdown looms, Movement for Quality Government petitions High Court against ministry’s decision to award NIS 700 million of food vouchers on basis of city rate discounts
By Sue Surkes
Inside the Sorek A Desalination Plant, November 2015. (Yossi Zamir/FLASH90)
November 7, 2019, 6:10 pm
Citing their past misdeeds, court nixes bidders for massive desalination plant
Judge rules committee was wrong to advance proposals by Yitzhak Tshuva’s IDE, as well as Hutchison Water, in light of water quality having been faked at another plant they owned
By Sue Surkes
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a signing ceremony for an agreement to build new apartments in Jerusalem, on March 11, 2019. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)
March 17, 2019, 2:47 am
Ex-judge ‘pressured’ to quit panel that barred tycoons from funding PM’s defense
Opposition chief calls for inquiry after State Comptroller’s Permits Committee head Oni Habash resigns, reportedly telling confidants he faced intense political pressure
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at his Jerusalem office, March 10, 2019. (GALI TIBBON/AFP)
March 11, 2019, 3:09 pm
Netanyahu petitions High Court to allow tycoons to cover his legal defense
PM seeks to overturn State Comptroller committee that twice ruled that wealthy acquaintances cannot fund his attorneys in corruption cases against him
By ToI Staff
The planned cable car to Jerusalem's Old City. (Screenshot/Emek Shaveh)
October 12, 2018, 4:19 pm
Israel Prize winners call on government to cancel Jerusalem Old City cable car
70 public figures from academia and the arts sign petition, say holy city is ‘not Disneyland and its treasures of landscape and its heritage are not negotiable currency’
By Sue Surkes
Police spray water to try and disperse a protest by ultra-Orthodox Jews against the conscription of members of their community to the IDF at the entrance to Jerusalem on October 23, 2017. (AFP Photo/Ahmad Gharabli)
August 12, 2018, 10:52 pm
Ultra-Orthodox sue to stop police use of ‘skunk spray’ anti-riot method
Plaintiffs tell High Court of Justice that foul-smelling liquid used to deter protesters is a form of collective punishment
By JTA
Supreme Court Justice Hanan Melcer (C) arrives at the High Court of Justice in Jerusalem for a hearing about public transportation on Shabbat, on September 11, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 28, 2018, 8:56 pm
MKs push ahead with bill curbing High Court in West Bank land disputes
Justice Minister Shaked hails move as helping settlers, reducing load for top court, but opposition lawmaker slam it as part of ‘annexation bid’
By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid
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