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Mar 21, 2023, 3:16 PM

The constitutional revolution wasn’t Aharon Barak’s

The Israeli Supreme Court in Jerusalem, 1953. In the center M. Smora, President of the Supreme Court accompanied by Supreme Court Justices, S. Asaf, I. Olshan, S.Z. Cheshin, S. Agranat and M. Silberg.

It was the Knesset, not the court, that made radical change. As for those early-state judges, they were never robots

Feb 28, 2023, 1:20 PM

Huwara could open Israel to war crimes charges

A Palestinian man walks between scorched cars in a scrapyard after a settler riot, in the town of Huwara, near the West Bank city of Nablus, February 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

If the authorities don’t launch an investigation into Sunday night’s rampage, the International Court may do so instead

Feb 9, 2023, 1:52 PM

So it begins: A diary of the very near future

(Illustration by Avi Katz)

This is how the government's sweeping change to Israel's constitutional and political regime plays out

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David Kretzmer is an emeritus professor of constitutional and international law.