David Page, at The Blogs

Feb 13, 2023, 5:49 PM

Those Shrill Tantrums About the “End of Democracy”

As I write this article, the streets of Jerusalem are filled with demonstrators -- and hysteria -- lamenting the destruction of Israeli democracy. This sounds more dramatic than it is: What the demonstrators are mainly lamenting is that the...

Nov 19, 2022, 11:42 PM

The Emerging Coalition in Israel Isn’t “Extremist”

The most reliable sign of true extremism is demonizing that opponent and refusing to deal with the opponent's views on their merits. It's also a sign of insecurity about the merit's of one's own views. Accusations of ideological deviance...

Nov 11, 2022, 2:12 PM

A Gig Worker’s Declaration of Independence!

The new proposed rules issued by the US Department of Labor (USDOL) regulating gig workers and the approach to those same workers by the Israeli Labor Court (in cases involving Uber and others) threaten to destroy the gig economy...

Nov 1, 2022, 8:36 PM

Durable Power of Attorney (POA) – Top 5 Smart Tips

The durable power of attorney is a very powerful and potentially immensely helpful document. In the United States, this has been an important for anyone wanting to arrange their financial, healthcare, or personal affairs as part of their wills,...

Sep 6, 2022, 5:35 PM

10 Top Legal Problems for Businesses – Law Hacks 2

The start-up nation has generated a wealth of great business ideas that have helped power such applications as Fiverr, Wix, and Waze, as well as game-changing tech like MobileEye. But as we pointed out a couple of weeks ago...

Aug 12, 2022, 12:02 AM

10 Top Legal Problems for Businesses – Law Hacks

May 11, 2022, 4:54 PM

Practice Makes Im-Perfect: Re-Imagining Lawyering

When I graduated from law school, we were sure that we all needed to “pay our dues.” That meant being chained to a desk in gleaming law offices for most of us. We were resigned to our fate, as...

Jan 10, 2022, 1:55 PM

The Real Backstory of the Beating of Haim Mizrahi

The alleged recent beating and torture of young Haim Mizrahi, a store clerk in the ultra-Orthodox Geula neighborhood of Jerusalem, was captured on video and therefore made national newscasts (see Channel 12 video coverage) as well as these pages...

Jul 16, 2021, 1:00 PM

Why the Charedim Heed Their Rabbinical Leadership

Left to Right: Rabbi Dovid Cohen of Brooklyn and Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky in Bnei Brak (from the author's private collection)

It’s Sober Wisdom, Not Blind Folly We are in times when politicians have been trying to divide us by demonizing and caricaturing “the other.” Often a “fact” is distorted into an unrecognizable caricature of reality. The reasons for this kind...

Jul 8, 2021, 7:23 PM

Un-vilify the Charedim

Why Embracing the Ultra-Orthodox Is Crucial For Israel as a Jewish and Democratic State By its own Declaration of Independence, Israel was declared to be a “Jewish and democratic state.” Yet based on its treatment of the Ultra-Orthodox Jews...

About Me

David Page is a US and Israeli attorney practicing law in Jerusalem. David is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Chicago Law School, after which he went to study European law at the University of Paris and to clerk on the US Court of Appeals. David also has learned at the Mir Yeshiva, and has taught at the Faculty of Law of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and published in the field. He served as regulatory counsel in an American Israeli high-tech company for more than half a decade and heads his own law firm and is the founder and CEO of the innovative business legal-tech platform NoGranite ("some prefer their lawyering straight up, not on the rocks") www.nogranite.com. You can write David at david@davidpagelaw.com, david@nogranite.com or visit him at www.davidpagelaw.com or www.nogranite.com

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