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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 363

Jeremy Sharon

Jeremy Sharon

Jeremy Sharon is The Times of Israel’s legal affairs and settlements reporter
Rabbi Avidan Freedman (C) and other activists on hunger strike outside the Knesset. (Courtesy)
October 2, 2024, 6:29 pm
11 days in, hunger strikers unwavering as they highlight plight of Israeli hostages
‘We cannot be, and we are not, a society which is happier killing our enemies than saving our children’ says hunger striker Rabbi Avidan Freedman
By Jeremy Sharon
Outgoing Acting Supreme Court President Uzi Vogelman with incoming Acting Supreme Court President Isaac Amit (L) and Justice Noam Sohlberg (R) at a farewell ceremony for Vogelman at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, October 1, 2024. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Pool)
October 1, 2024, 11:08 pm
Vogelman retires as Supreme Court president in shadow of severe judiciary-gov’t clash
Outgoing Supreme Court acting president laments justice minister’s efforts to weaken judiciary in parting speech, chastises him for refusing to appoint a new permanent president
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)
September 29, 2024, 9:40 pm
Judiciary adviser: Levin’s tactic to delay Supreme Court president vote ‘ridiculous’
Legal adviser to Israel Courts Administration says nominating justices for the position against their will violates administrative law, is ‘detached from reality’
By Jeremy Sharon
A ring worn by a man from East Jerusalem with the Seal of Muhammad on it, an inscription declaring "Muhammad is God’s messenger. He was arrested and put in detention by the police on suspicion that the ring expressed identification with the ISIS terror organization, although a district court judge dismissed the allegation. (Courtesy)
September 25, 2024, 7:39 pm
East Jerusalem pharmacist arrested, held overnight on false claim he wore ‘ISIS ring’
Police failed to check what was written on the ring or if it resembled ISIS logo. Lawyer slammed arrest and police ‘Islamophobia’; magistrate was unmoved; district court intervened
By Jeremy Sharon
Justice Minister Yariv Levin (L) at the Knesset in Jerusalem on September 9, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Acting Supreme Court Chief Justice Uzi Vogelman speaks at the Israel Bar Association's annual conference in Tel Aviv, September 3, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
September 24, 2024, 7:19 pm
10 Supreme Court justices seek to retract their imposed candidacies for president
Justice Minister Levin nominated all 12 judges without their consent in protest against court ordering him to appoint new president when he doesn’t want to
By Jeremy Sharon
An Israeli, allegedly from the illegal settlement outpost of Meitarim Farm, peers into the home of Palestinians in the West Bank village of Khirbet Zanuta, August 31, 2024. (Courtesy Haqel)
September 24, 2024, 2:11 pm
Displaced Palestinians say IDF, police in contempt of court order to allow them back home
Khirbet Zanuta villagers tell High Court authorities failing to fulfill its ruling to facilitate their return home; legal scholars warn continued displacement may be war crime
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)
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
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir's car after an accident in Ramle, April 26, 2024. The minister was lightly injured. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)
September 22, 2024, 7:36 pm
Ben Gvir’s driver indicted for reckless driving over crash while chauffeuring minister
According to charges, Moshe Eichenstein drove ‘recklessly’ without paying attention to the road; his lawyer alleges a political hit job
By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff
Bashar Eid, a Palestinian olive farmer and resident of the West Bank village of Burin, stands amid his olive trees next to his home with the illegal settlement outpost of Givat Ronen in the background. Olive groves belonging to Eid went up in flames on September 11. Eid and other villagers allege Israeli extremists who came from the nearby settlement of Yitzhar set the olive groves on fire, September 12, 2024. (Jeremy Sharon/Times of Israel)
September 21, 2024, 2:06 pm
Smoke point: A Palestinian olive farmer despairs after hundreds of trees set ablaze
After over a year of access to his lands blocked, this year’s coming harvest offered hope, now shattered; though video of apparent arsonists exists, authorities not investigating
By Jeremy Sharon
(L) Gali Baharav-Miara on February 8, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) and (R) Benjamin Netanyahu, November 2, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
September 20, 2024, 12:55 am
AG tells Netanyahu she won’t defend his refusal to approve state inquiry into Oct. 7
Gali Baharav-Miara sends letter to PM saying government can enlist independent counsel to present its position against High Court petitions demanding commission’s formation
By Jeremy Sharon
This undated photo taken in winter 2023 and provided by Breaking the Silence, a whistleblower group of former Israeli soldiers, shows blindfolded Palestinians captured in the Gaza Strip in a detention facility on the Sde Teiman military base in southern Israel. (Breaking The Silence via AP)
September 18, 2024, 6:29 pm
High Court declines to shutter Sde Teiman, orders state to abide by law for detainees
Court notes that conditions at detention facility have improved since petition was filed, says maintaining rule of law distinguishes Israel from its enemies
By Jeremy Sharon
Then-Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon speaks at a press conference at the PM's office in Jerusalem. November 11, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/FLASH90)
September 17, 2024, 7:06 pm
Ex-finance minister Kahlon expected to be charged with securities fraud
Kahlon, who served as chairman of the board of credit company Unet Credit, allegedly instructed a compliance officer not to inform others after serious embezzlement uncovered
By Jeremy Sharon
Justice Minister Yariv Levin (L) at the Knesset, in Jerusalem on September 9, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends a farewell ceremony in honor of outgoing Police Chief Kobi Shabtai, at the National Police Academy in Beit Shemesh, on July 14, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
September 17, 2024, 1:31 pm
AG asks court to end government inquiry into allegations of police spyware abuse
Chief concern is that the commission is being used as a platform to discredit the handling of aspects of Netanyahu’s criminal investigation
By Jeremy Sharon
Chairman of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee MK Simcha Rothman leads a committee hearing, September 16, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 17, 2024, 2:20 am
Bill would let police probe suspected incitement to terrorism without State Attorney’s okay
Critics of proposed legislation fear freedom of speech may be constricted, express concern over ‘politicized’ police investigations
By Jeremy Sharon
Settlers attack a school in the Palestinian village of Mu'arrajat East in the Jordan Valley of the West Bank on September 16, 2024. (Sceen capture/X)
September 16, 2024, 8:56 pm
Settlers assault Palestinian villagers and Israeli activists in Jordan Valley
Israeli human rights activists say 9 people were injured in an incident that followed an earlier attack on a settler shepherd; two Palestinians arrested, no Israelis detained
By Jeremy Sharon
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