Israeli Supreme Court
The game the Court is playing is “heads I win, tails you lose.”
A restraint on a runaway judiciary.
A “mind-boggling” ruling.
It’s hard to imagine a former justice in any other democracy trying to orchestrate a mass judicial resignation.
Israel’s supreme court, and its overreaching and overactive judiciary in general, are not the cause but the symptom of a larger predicament.
How Israel’s supreme court has effected its own constitutional revolution—and thereby undermined public confidence in the rule of law.
With the election over, what should be the priorities of Israel’s new government?
From newspapers and television stations, to the committee that appoints Supreme Court justices, to the body responsible for overseeing school curricula, a number of key. . .
For all the controversy about Israel’s identity, the country’s own legal framework establishing it as a specifically “Jewish state” is surprisingly—and dangerously—tenuous.