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Remove Efi Naveh from Bar head running -NGO to State Attorney

Though Naveh resigned as the Bar head in 2019 over a scandal, Israeli sources reported that he had gained enough signatures to run for reelection.

Efi Naveh appears in court, January 16th, 2019
 THE JUSTICE Ministry offices in Jerusalem.

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Israeli brothels operated by 'working women' to face less government prosecution

Prostitution in Israel is legal, but pimping and brothels remain outside the law, and new legislation proposing to persecute only patrons of the sex trade is making its way through the Knesset.

A prostitute waits for customers along a road.

Court convicts Gay Pride Parade stabber Yishai Schlissel of murder

Schlissel’s first attempt at infiltrating the parade was stopped by police. He managed to gain entry and launch the attack by joining it from a different street.

Yishai Schlissel

US court hears PA appeal against $656 m. terror judgment

Court to PA: your argument could make it hard to sue foreign terrorists in US; Victim: hopeful for complete victory.

Palestinian gunmen in Shuafat carry weapons during a funeral march for a Palestinian terrorist, shot dead by police after stabbing two Israelis in Jerusalem’s Old City

Shaked, AG can wait on emergency motion to end prosecutors’ strike

Judge Eyal Avrahami pushed back at the emergency motion, noting that if it was so emergent that it could not wait another day, it would have been filed 9 day ago when the strike started.

Ayelet Shaked, nouvelle ministre de la Justice

Report shows spike in valid complaints against judges

A valid complaint indicates that the judge made one of a variety of possible errors.

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Guantanamo’s influence on Israeli civilian courts

Normally, the only kind of testimony that can be used to convict a defendant, any defendant from a petty thief to an arch terrorist, is testimony made by witnesses in court.

The exterior of Camp Delta is seen at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, March 6, 2013. The facility is operated by the Joint Task Force Guantanamo and holds prisoners who have been captured in the war in Afghanistan and elsewhere since the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Jerusalem judge orders release of Palestinian man responsible for Herzliya manhunt

Citing lack of evidence of planned terror attack, judge rejects 5-day remand pending police appeal.

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Analysis: Stop and frisk terror law may not last even if it passes

Stop and frisk, meaning where a policeman stops someone on the street and can demand to review what objects they are carrying in their pockets or elsewhere.

Zahalka with police officers banning him from Temple Mount

African migrants start law school studies at Ramat Gan

One migrant is in a night program which will allow him to continue working as a court translator in Tel Aviv.

Mutasim Ali, 28 of Sudan, and court translator Suleiman Masgana, 37 of Eritrea

Shaked introduces major changes to confessions law to protect defendants

Many security cases involving Arab-Israelis and even some involving Jewish security suspects could be heavily impacted by the change.

Ayelet Shaked, nouvelle ministre de la Justice

Curing the Supreme Court’s ills – Part I: Judicial review

One of the important tasks which the new government and the new Knesset will face is the urgent need to cure some of the ills of the Supreme Court.

Ayelet Shaked