Judiciary

Israel has been without a chief justice since October 2023, when former chief justice Esther Hayut’s tenure ended.

The judges' trip included an exploration of International Humanitarian Law and the laws of war from the Israeli perspective.

Acting Supreme Court president Uzi Vogelman called to permanently fill the top justice position.

Without new judges being appointed, Israel was on track to be short more than 50 judges by the end of next month.

This specific amendment is not a limitation placed upon the judiciary’s power of review over acts of the executive. It is indeed the uprooting of this power.

Justice Yitzhak Amit said that democracy doesn’t usually die all at once, “democracy dies in small steps.”

Some 37% of the poll's respondents said that the High Court should dismiss the petitions as opposed to 34% who said it should strike down the law.

Rothman had appealed to the court on Monday as one of the respondents to the eight petitions against the judicial reform law.

Should the parties to the litigation challenging the reasonableness standard law agree to a split in the application of the standard of review of reasonableness? If not, should the court impose one?

Amir Ohana warned that a ruling to strike down a basic law would be "against the Knesset and Israeli democracy."