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Although she has build a distinguished career both inside and outside the walls of academia, and has a world acclaimed reputation for her work and expertise in human and civil rights, a seat on the bench of the Supreme Court continues to elude Hebrew University Law School Prof. Ruth Gavison.
But while the powers-that-be are hesitant about appointing the outspoken and bilingually articulate Gavison who has never hesitated to criticize either the government or the Supreme Court on decisions she believed to be incorrect or unjust, her admiring students are circulating a petition calling for her appointment to the Supreme Court.
But vox populi is not always vox Dei, and Gavison (60), who was a founding member and later president of the Israel Association for Civil Rights, and has won prestigious awards for co-authoring a draft covenant between religious and secular Jews in
Gavison. Still waiting to grasp the gavel. (Ariel Jerozolimski)
Ruth Gavison.pdf - Ruth Gavison in The Jerusalem Post