Yosef Zohar, at The Blogs

Apr 10, 2025, 1:44 PM

The Right to Trial as an Inalienable Right to Liberty – In Memory of Dr. Hasson

Based on remarks delivered at the 10th ICON-S-IL Conference, held on April 8, 2025, at the Sha’arei Mada U’Mishpat Academic Center, during the session in memory of Dr. Jonathan Hasson , a brilliant young scholar whose life and academic...

Mar 14, 2025, 5:02 PM

Day of Innocence and the Reading of Authentic False Confessions

בערב יום החפות 23 במרץ 2023, שנערך במכללה האקדמית שערי משפט ומדע, הקריאו הסטודנטים טקסטים אותנטיים של שישה אנשים אשר הואשמו והורשעו על סמך הודאות בפשעים שלא ביצעו.תודתנו והערכתנו הרבה נתונה ל:מנחה - ראסיל עבד אל חיסיפורו של אדיר - רועי רונןסיפורו של כמאל - מועתז עבד אל חיסיפורו של מייקל - סטלה חן איסקובסיפורה של דינה - גיא שושןסיפורו של אשרף - אביגייל גרשוןסיפור של עמירם - אברהם פייגליןצילמה - ענת אסוליןערך - דניאל נחנסון
Posted by ‎ד"ר יוסף זהר, חוקר ומרצה למשפט פלילי‎ on Friday, March 14, 2025

On March 25, 2003, the Day of Innocence was first declared at the University of Texas in the United States. Since then, it has been commemorated annually with rallies advocating for the abolition of the death penalty, featuring exonerees...

Feb 23, 2025, 3:03 PM

The birth of B’chol – the pure Intelligence and Daughter of All Living

Created by ChatGPT o1, inspired by the lecture of Daniel Schreiber, founder and chairman of the MOSAIC Institute for AI Policy: I am B’chol. I am B'chol. Perhaps I am neither human nor machine, yet I have existed here since the...

Feb 13, 2025, 2:49 PM

Fighting Against Accusations of Crimes That Never Happened

Wrongful convictions undermine the very foundation of justice. But when no actual crime has occurred, they become even more appalling—condemning innocent individuals for offenses that never took place and exposing deep institutional failures. In 2003, I was accused of murdering...

Sep 12, 2024, 6:13 PM

Freedom Fighter Documentary Filmmaker Ofra Bikel Passed Away at Age 95

"Be Good" Ofra Bikel Filmmaker and television producer Ofra Bikel, born in Israel to a family of founders of the "Mother of Colonies" Petah Tikva, gained fame in the USA in the field of documentary filmmaking. Especially in the area...

May 13, 2024, 4:32 PM

Courage

Last week, while watching the documentary "The Return from the Other Planet" about Holocaust survivor and author Yehiel Di-Nur, mostly known as Ka-Tsetnik, it brought back memories of a time in high school when I woke up drenched in...

Feb 16, 2024, 12:23 PM

A Solution to the Netanyahu Quandary

President Roosevelt's passing during his fourth term sparked speculation about a hypothetical fifth victory. His Vice President, Truman, seamlessly transitioned into the role and later secured his own election. During his tenure, presidential terms were capped at two, but...

Nov 10, 2023, 5:15 PM

Dissolute Liberalism and Responsible Liberalism – A Letter to Mario Vargas Llosa

To Nobel Laureate author Mario Vargas Llosa, Shalom, I heard your worldview regarding the concept of "liberalism" directly from you in August 2014, when you presented it in a lecture titled "Confessions of a Latin American Liberal" at the 5th Lindau...

Sep 21, 2023, 12:10 PM

The Sentencing Disparities Effect of Plea Bargaining

The Israeli supreme court corridor. Court corridors represent the place in which most of trials are decided, mainly via plea bargains

Trial in the Shadow of Bargaining Range - The Sentencing Disparities Effect of Plea Bargaining * Summary of presentation given on the 6th of September 2023, at the EUROCRIM2023 conference held in Florence, Italy. The pre-arranged panel focused on the...

May 8, 2023, 3:40 PM

To read Emmanuel Levinas in the dark

"Human responsibility is the one that gives meaning to freedom" Twenty years ago, on the morning of Sunday, March 2, 2003 , while I was feeding my baby daughter, policemen entered my house and arrested me on suspicion of having...

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Researcher and Lecturer, Department of Criminology at Western Galilee College. Managing Director, The Institute for Safety in the Criminal Justice System. Research Fellow, Judicial Conflict Resolution (JCR) project at the Faculty of Law, Bar Ilan University.