Joel Silber, at The Blogs

Joel Silber

Sep 17, 2024, 5:15 PM

Here are the two primary “achievements” of our current Government: First, pursuit of a highly controversial judicial reform that tore the country apart and that, whatever its merits, was clearly motivated by a desire to counter the potential effects of...

Mar 19, 2023, 11:32 AM

Your Knesset At Work: This Year’s Alternative ‘Four Questions’

Yoav Krakovsky of Israel Radio’s Reshet Bet reports that, even as the coalition continues the legislative process with respect to various elements of its judicial reform, it considers the adoption of four proposed laws to be of even greater...

Mar 12, 2023, 2:50 AM

Majority Rule And The Proposed Judicial Reform

In a Times Of Israel blog, “This Reform Will End Limitless Power For Unelected Elites,” Dr. Moshe Koppel of the Kohelet Policy Forum argues that the governing coalition’s judicial reform proposals seek to readjust the balance between the branches...

About Me

Born in New York, studied post-high school in Israeli Yeshivot, B.A. 1975 from Yeshiva University (math major), law degree Harvard Law School 1978, practiced law in New York 4 years, made aliya in 1982 and practiced law in Israel since then, married with 4 children and 13 grandchildren.