Israel’s Supreme Court orders stop to yeshivah funding for haredim required to enlist in IDF

Israel’s Supreme Court on Thursday issued an interim order prohibiting the government from providing stipends to some haredi, or ultra-Orthodox, Jewish men who do not serve in the Israel Defence Forces. Read more

Israeli court rejects law that limited court oversight

Israel’s Supreme Court has struck down a highly disputed law passed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government that rolled back some of the high court’s power and sparked months of nationwide protests. Read more

Tensions high as Israeli Supreme Court convenes on judicial overhaul

Tensions were high at Israel’s Supreme Court as justices gathered on Tuesday morning to hear petitions against a key component of the government’s judicial overhaul initiative. Read more

Protests grip Israel ahead of judicial reform ruling

There have been renewed protests in Israel on the day before an eagerly awaited court hearing on the government’s controversial judicial reform plans. Read more

Temporary injunction against Netanyahu impeachment law

Israel’s High Court of Justice on Sunday issued a temporary injunction against the Knesset’s “Recusal Law”, which restricts the ways in which a sitting prime minister can be removed from office. Read more

All 15 justices to hear petitions against ‘reasonableness law’

All 15 justices of Israel’s Supreme Court will hear the petitions asking them to cancel the “reasonableness law” that the Knesset passed last week, Supreme Court President Esther Hayut announced on Monday. Read more

Israel’s top court to look at reforms in September

Israel’s Supreme Court says it will wait until September to address the recently passed law aimed at weakening the judiciary. Read more

High Court ruling on judicial reform could trigger constitutional crisis

If Israel’s Supreme Court strikes down the “reasonableness law” that the Knesset enacted on Monday, it would create an unprecedented constitutional crisis, legal experts told the Tazpit Press Service. Read more

The showdown in Israel continues as judicial reform advances

Israel’s Supreme Court is either under attack or undergoing necessary reform, depending on who you ask. Read more

Israel gives first nod to contested Supreme Court bill

Israel’s parliament has given initial approval to a bill that limits some Supreme Court power, part of a rebooted judicial overhaul by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that has set off a deep political crisis. Read more

Tens of thousands contest judicial reforms in Israel

Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets again in Israel to protest the government’s controversial judicial reform. Read more

Protests increase as Netanyahu sacks defence minister

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sacked Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, triggering mass protests a day after Gallant broke ranks with the government and urged a halt to a highly contested plan to overhaul the judicial system. Read more

Israel ratifies law limiting conditions for ousting PM

Israel has ratified a law limiting the circumstances in which a prime minister can be removed, despite worries voiced by a government jurist that it might be meant to shield the incumbent Benjamin Netanyahu from any fallout from his corruption trials. Read more

Israel is our business

Israel’s Six-Day War disrupted Benjamin Netanyahu’s graduation plans at Cheltenham High School, located less than a mile from the Philadelphia neighbourhood where I grew up. Read more

Biden’s less than ironclad commitment to Israel

Forget the bromides about America’s “unbreakable bond” with Israel and how the United States is Israel’s “greatest friend.” Over the past week, the Biden administration has crossed two ominous red lines. Read more

Pre-Purim portents

Rosh Chodesh Adar (the new month of Adar) has arrived, and that means Purim is not far away. Read more

An important appointment for distinguished judge

Justice David Hammerschlag has been appointed as Chief Judge in Equity in the NSW Supreme Court. Read more

Muslim High Court nominee facing accusations of terror support

Judge Khaled Kabub, a High Court of Justice nominee, is facing accusations that he met with supporters of terrorism, participated in an event that supported terrorism, and was honoured during it. Read more

Headstone of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg unveiled in Arlington National Cemetery

The tombstone of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the first Jewish woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, was unveiled days before the first anniversary of her death on Sept. 18. Read more

Will Israel’s politicized Supreme Court stick to law on Palestinian Sheikh Jarrah squatters?

In what can be seen as an eyebrow-raising moment, Israel’s Supreme Court on Monday noted that the Jewish owners of properties under dispute in the Shimon HaTzadik neighbourhood of Jerusalem, which is often erroneously mixed up with the adjacent Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood, are within their legal rights to evict the illegal Palestinian squatters, but is pushing to find a solution that allows them to remain in the homes. Read more