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Jan 27, 2025, 5:30 AM

Don’t be fooled, we’re losing the war for Israeli democracy

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, MKs and ministers in the Knesset, May 23, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Last night, those who cherish Israel’s democracy celebrated what seemed like a victory: Yitzhak Amit was finally elected as President of the Supreme Court, following months of obstruction by Justice Minister Yariv Levin. The court’s intervention broke the deadlock,...

Dec 18, 2024, 3:42 PM

‘If you don’t uphold what I say, then I’ll change the rules’

Coalition lawmakers crowd around Justice Minister Yariv Levin to take a celebratory selfie in the Knesset plenum, as they pass the first of the coalition's judicial overhaul laws, the so-called "reasonableness law", on July 24, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In avoiding the High Court ruling that he must convene the committee to appoint the court's president, Minister Yariv Levin is abusing his authority

Aug 29, 2024, 10:54 PM

If MKs control the courts, only criminals will be MKs

In an interview today (29.8.2024), Likud MK Hanoch Milwidsky claimed that “the court in Israel works against the right and holds no Justice.” Announcing that he would work against the supreme court as soon as the war in Gaza...

Sep 27, 2023, 5:00 PM

The Yisraeli left cult of the Supreme Court

In a democratic country (not Yisrael), the Supreme Court is not all powerful and able to pass a judgement on every single thing in life. In a truly democratic country, every single institution and the people serving in it, and...

Shulamit S. Magnus

Sep 5, 2023, 3:42 PM

Compromise? We Are Not Netanyahu’s Travel Agent

So, MK Tzachi Hanegbi, veteran Likudnik, says, straight up, that the mass demonstrations stopped the coalition's legislative coup from being implemented as planned. That has long been plain knowledge but here it is, from him. This admission, however striking, does not...

Aug 14, 2023, 12:35 PM

When Jim Crow takes over Israel

Imagine a Macbeth-type pre-elections witch session where Messrs. Smotritch, Levin, and Ben-Gvir bend maliciously over a steaming cauldron even before the hurly-burly is done. They confer on going to the ballots without alerting the Israeli public to their true...

Efraim Podoksik

Jul 24, 2023, 2:44 PM

They’ve forgotten why they want judicial reform

A vote on the reasonableness bill at the Knesset. Jerusalem. July 24, 2023.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The government is using the right’s valid criticisms of the Court as a smokescreen for reforms that hurt their own voters

Jul 19, 2023, 12:42 PM

Under Levin, justice is delayed, and delayed, and delayed

Justice Minister Yariv Levin speaks during a constitution committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem, on January 11, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The public is being held hostage by a minister who is shirking his legal duty to convene the Judicial Selection Committee

David Stromberg

Jul 16, 2023, 9:52 PM

Our misconceptions about modern democracy

"The Death of Democracy." Old White Truck, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

For nearly five years, I taught English language and American culture in Jerusalem. One work I featured regularly was an illustrated essay by Maira Kalman, "E Pluribus Unum," which means "Out of Many, One"—and which happens to be the...

Jun 13, 2023, 7:29 PM

What is going on in Israel?

Last weekend we marked week 23 of our massive public outcries. About a quarter of a million Israelis have once again taken to the streets, the city squares, and major intersections to demonstrate against the regime coup, and so...

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