Supreme Court
Selecting Judges to Constitutional Courts – a Comparative Study
What is the appropriate method for selecting Supreme Court justices? That question is one that drives a considerable amount of the public discourse in Israel. Ever since the enactment...
The Declaration of Independence wasn’t meant to be Israel’s constitution
The article was originally published in Mosaic Magazine In his superb series on Israel’s declaration of independence, Martin Kramer brings to life the circumstances and calculations behind the document’s drafting. This...
Democracy vs juristocracy
None of the constraints on the court taken for granted elsewhere exist in Israel—those who hysterically argue against any limitation on judicial review are actually trying to create a...
Not everything can be decided in court
The ruling by Justice Alex Stein is a recognition of the limits of the Supreme Court's authority to intervene in government policy
Israel as a Nation-State in Supreme Court Rulings
Download the full article The following article portrays the gradual erosion of the Nation-state concept in Israeli Supreme Court rulings. The article is from “The Israeli...
When Israel’s Supreme Court approved of the override clause
It was Justice Aharon Barak who came up with the creative solution to let the law against the import of non-kosher meat pass. Despite the fact he himself deemed...
Is it wrong to critique decisions by the Israel Supreme Court?
Nowhere is criticism of the court more warranted than in the gas decision. Nothing in Israeli law bars such long-term commercial arrangements.
Prof Diskin: Supreme court’s decision was “illegal and irrational”
Prof. Avi Diskin, senior fellow at Kohelet Policy Forum, related in an interview to the IBA News to the supreme court decision to dismiss three mayors despite the fact...