Joel H. Golovensky

The author is an attorney in Israel and the US, and is the founding president of the Institute for Zionist Strategies, which seeks to strengthen Israel as the democratic nation-state of the Jewish People.

 SUPREME COURT President Esther Hayut attends a conference in Haifa, in January. Would the Supreme Court nullify Knesset legislation as readily today as it did six months ago? It should be clear to all that it will not, says the writer.

Netanyahu's Israeli judicial reform is already here - opinion

 THEN-SUPREME Court president Dorit Beinisch chats with her predecessor, Aharon Barak, at a law conference in Jerusalem, 2010

Is Netanyahu a dreidel or is he being turned into an etrog? - opinion

 BENJAMIN NETANYAHU seen at Jerusalem District Court during his trial.

Government blackmail of targeted witnesses has perverted our democracy - opinion


Court's refusal to nix Israel's Nation-State Law is dangerous - opinion

The court’s holding establishes the revolutionary principle that the Knesset, even when sitting as a constituent authority, cannot amend the constitution unless the court approves it.

SUPREME COURT Chief Justice Ester Hayut presides over a hearing in Jerusalem in May.

Saeb Erekat should and will receive best healthcare at Hadassah hospital

Why are there no hospitals under Palestinian Authority rule to which the gravely suffering Erekat and his family can turn?

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat

Amy Coney Barrett will not be like Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The nomination of a new US Supreme Court justice and what is really at stake.

JUDGE AMY Coney Barrett speaks at her Senate confirmation hearing to the Supreme Court, on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Wednesday.

Prof. Ruth Gavison: A legal giant and a born mensch

Prof. Gavison, or “Rutie” as she insisted, was a brilliant legal scholar whose reach and dimension I could only sense, since her incisive scholarship was well beyond the scope of my comprehension.

RUTH GAVISON attends a discussion on the ‘Jewish state’ bill, in the Knesset.

Joseph in Egypt is an American Jewish dream gone bad

Joseph came to the new country destitute, without a trade, education or family, yet rose to the highest level of influence, power, wealth and fame.

WAS IT a misguided dream?

Clean streets will not guarantee the future of Jerusalem

The city of Jerusalem cannot do this alone. It must be adopted by the government as national policy with massive state funding, resolute national political support, and international promotion.

THE OLD CITY of Jerusalem – quartered and whole

The Nation-State Law and the march of Jewish history

The Jewish Nation-State Law is a major event in Israel’s history and in the Zionist vocation. In days to come, this basic law will be broadly recognized and widely heralded. Jewish history is on the

An Israeli flag is seen near the Dome of the Rock, located in Jerusalem's Old City

Prosecution leaks ‘in the public interest’

Without leaks, the media would lose an important and even major source of information.

FBI van in Texas

The discriminatory laws that do not discriminate

Adalah calls itself “an independent human rights organization,” and thus its statements enjoy some of the halo effect attached to this self-anointed status.

JUST A mirage of equality? The author asks whether demands for equality in Israel are a hidden way to reduce Jewish rights to a state

The real story in Iowa: Elections are more exciting than snow

Clinton, Trump, Sanders and Cruz