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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 366

Yosef Elron

Justice Minister Yariv Levin attends a swearing-in ceremony for newly appointed judges at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on June 23, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
September 23, 2024, 12:39 am
Levin nominates all Supreme Court judges for president in effort to stall appointment
Justice minister claims court is coercing appointment of new chief justice; opponents accuse him of shameful behavior, say he still intends to ‘crush independence of legal system’
By Jeremy Sharon
Justice Minister Yariv Levin (right) attends a swearing-in ceremony for newly appointed judges along with Supreme Court Acting President Uzi Vogelman, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on June 23, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
September 8, 2024, 7:32 pm
High Court orders Levin to appoint new court president; he calls its ruling undemocratic
Liberal justice Isaac Amit now likely to become president of Israel’s top court; justice minister vows to boycott incoming president; ministers threaten to revive judicial overhaul
By Jeremy Sharon and Sam Sokol
Justice Minister Yariv Levin (right) attends a swearing-in ceremony for newly appointed judges along with Supreme Court Acting President Uzi Vogelman, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on June 23, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 27, 2024, 2:12 pm
High Court tells Levin to quickly start process for appointing new court president
Top court says there is ‘no escape’ from filling the position after justice minister was given enough time to seek ‘broad consensus’ on the appointment, but failed
By Jeremy Sharon
Justice Minister Yariv Levin attends a swearing-in ceremony for newly appointed judges at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on June 23, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 26, 2024, 9:52 pm
Supreme Court head rejects Levin plan to make conservative judge chief justice for a year
Acting Court President Vogelman slams justice minister’s proposal, accuses him of ‘harming the proper functioning of the justice system’ during a time of crisis
By ToI Staff
President of the Supreme Court Esther Hayut (center) together with Justice Uzi Vogelman (left) and Justice Isaac Amit at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, August 3, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 4, 2023, 12:42 am
Coalition said pushing bill that would limit powers of next Supreme Court president
With Esther Hayut set to retire, Isaac Amit up next for the role and Yosef Elron jockeying for the job, law that would make bench assignments automated said being weighed anew
By ToI Staff
Supreme Court Judge Yosef Elron arrives for a hearing, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, May 22, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 31, 2023, 5:46 am
Justice Elron panned for challenging seniority system for Supreme Court president
Critics say candidacy submission aimed at preventing rival Isaac Amit from assuming role as most veteran justice when current chief Esther Hayut retires
By ToI Staff
Supreme court justice Yosef Elron, December 15, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 30, 2023, 7:24 pm
In unprecedented challenge, junior justice asks to jump line for Supreme Ct. president
Conservative Yosef Elron submits candidacy to replace Esther Hayut, discarding court tradition that has seen only the most senior justice preside over the nation’s highest bench
By ToI Staff
Unfinished construction of one of the three metal wall roadblocks encircling Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's Ra'anana home, January 13, 2022. (Carrie Keller-Lynn/Times of Israel)
May 19, 2022, 1:48 am
High Court slams state’s handling of construction at PM’s residences
Judges criticize building without permits or permission by the state at Bennett’s private Ra’anana home and decry lack of progress in renovating official residence in Jerusalem
By Michael Horovitz
A Jewish terror suspect arrives to hear his verdict on his involvement in an arson attack in the West Bank village of Duma where three members of the Dawabshe family were killed, October 24, 2019. (Avshalom Shoshani/Flash90)
July 15, 2021, 12:56 pm
Top court upholds conviction of teen accomplice in deadly Jewish terror attack
Supreme Court justice dismisses appeal from man, a minor at time of 2015 West Bank arson attack that killed 3 members of Dawabsha family
By ToI Staff
Spokesperson for the Likud party and for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Jonatan Urich, arrives at a conference organized by the Makor Rishon newspaper and the Bnei Akiva youth movement at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, November 11, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
December 25, 2019, 1:34 pm
Supreme Court questions validity of police warrant to search PM aides’ phones
Judge rules magistrate’s court should make decision on whether request to access phones of Netanyahu’s party spokesman and campaign manager is based on illegally obtained material
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
Yesh Atid MK Ofer Shelah attends a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting on April 30, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
December 23, 2019, 5:10 pm
Blue and White MK: Court should not disqualify Netanyahu
Ofer Shelah says the PM, who faces a pending corruption indictment, should be voted out of office by the people, not the judges
By ToI Staff and Raoul Wootliff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen in a video produced on December 22, 2019, by his office in which he criticizes the High Court of Justice for considering a petition to declare him ineligible to run for re-election over pending corruption indictments. (Twitter screen capture)
December 22, 2019, 9:41 pm
‘This isn’t democracy’: Netanyahu slams court case against his reelection
High Court to hear petition arguing a lawmaker facing indictment can’t be appointed PM; Likud MK threatens to legislate against the court
By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff
In this photo taken on February 14, 2018, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leaves the Muni World conference in Tel Aviv (Jack Guez/AFP)
December 22, 2019, 6:56 pm
High Court to consider if an indicted Netanyahu can form government
Law offers no clear standard for PM’s eligibility in case of indictment; court ruling against him could play into his claim he is a victim of an ‘attempted coup’
By ToI Staff
Retired Justice Elyakim Rubinstein (R) speaks with Justice Salim Joubran at the Supreme Court during a meeting of the Israeli Judicial Selection Committee at the Ministry of Justice in Jerusalem on February 22, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90)
June 12, 2017, 8:24 pm
Arab judge appointed vice president of Supreme Court
Justice Salim Joubran replaces retiring Elyakim Rubenstein; will serve in position until his own retirement in August
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A meeting of the Judicial Selection Committee at the Justice Ministry in Jerusalem on February 22, 2017, with justice minister Ayelet Shaked, chief justice Miriam Naor, finance minister Moshe Kahlon and members of the committee (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 23, 2017, 3:48 pm
Shaked has her day in court
The announcement that 3 conservative judges will assume a role in Israel’s most important, and traditionally liberal, judicial institution leads some to celebrate and others to wallow in fear
By Adiv Sterman
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