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High Court Justice Selection Stalled
Two Supreme Court justices have retired in recent months but it looks like it will be a long time before the vacancies are filled, even though the court is overwhelmed with work. The reason for the standstill is the battle between Justice Minister...
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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 Heb...
It's not Judaism, It's Conservatism
An expanded panel of Supreme Court justices held in a majority ruling that the adoption law in Israel does not in principle prevent lesbian woman who live and raise their children together from adopting the other's child. The justices in the minor...
Referenda can Endanger Democracy
While the Israeli government is considering putting Israel’s disengagement from Gaza to a referendum, there are voices within the academic world questioning this measure. “I think that the idea of introducing referenda as a regular political tool ...
Taking space seriously: Law, space and society in contemporary Israel
"TAKING SPACE SERIOUSLY: Law, space and society in contemporary Israel" by Issachar Rosen-Zvi - Surely it is a happy coincidence that this study of political geography and segregation in Israel appears in the fiftieth anniversary year of Brown v. ...
Court rejects woman's second IDF exemption plea
Laura Milo, the 20-year-old woman who refuses to serve in the army because of her opposition to Israel's presence in the West Bank and Gaza, returned to serve a 14-day jail sentence two weeks after the High Court of Justice rejected her petition t...
ISRAEL: A house divided
One country, two worlds. Peter Berkowitz on the gulf of misunderstanding between Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs - JERUSALEM—Fences lock out. In the process, they lock in. So it is perfectly foreseeable that Israel’s decision to keep out terrorists...
Conscientious Objectors - The Worst of Criminals
"Conscientious Objectors - the worst of criminals" report of the court session of Dec. 23 by Adam Keller " 13 elite refusers - and it spreads... " Akiva Eldar in Ha'aretz Dec.23, 2003: Gush Shalom finds: 52 factories exited the Occupied Territorie...
Devaluing Democracy
The anniversary of the Rabin assassination invariably triggers countless laments over the state of Israeli democracy. Last Thursday, for instance, one talk show discussed a recent poll showing that a majority of Israelis value a strong leader more...
The Israeli connection Lecture series highlights facets of Israel
Program brings the Jewish state's movers and shakers to S.F. - A slight man with a full white beard stood in the courtyard of Congregation Emanu-El one recent evening, puffing contentedly on a small black pipe, watching people walk into the San Fr...
The EMET Prize
Ruth Gavison in the winner of the EMET prize in Law for 2003
2002 Events of the Israel Yale Alumni Group
The Yale Club of Israel held a number of events in 2001, including the international conference on Law and Literature held by the Whitney Humanities Center and Tel Aviv University; a visit by Yale Medical School professors at the U.S – Israel Symp...
Israel's judicial attack on Palestinians cuts both ways
GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP – With their blindfolds just removed and 1,000-shekel ($212) "adjustment grants" in hand, Intisar and Kifah Ajouri wandered onto a fig farm and deeper into the controversy surrounding Israel's new weapon against the intifada....
Hamilton, Madison & Jay in Jerusalem - How do you say The Federalist in Hebrew?
WHATEVER may be going on in the cultural and intellectual life of other countries in the Middle East, here in Israel--in the midst of a bloody and protracted war, with its civilian population under constant threat of deadly terrorist attack, in th...
Hamilton, Madison and Jay in Jerusalem
An article describing the international conference on the Federalist papers held in Jerusalem in february 2002 and Gavison's concluding speech on a constitution for Israel. Gavison wrote (with Allan S. Shapiro) the introduiction to the Hebrew tr...
Fear spurs voters into the arms of Sharon
Palestinian militants said last night that they were poised to attack targets in Israel on the eve of today's election, which is expected to make Ariel Sharon the country's next prime minister.
Israel's Media Watch - The Search for Justice
The publication last week of two documents: one, the State Attorney's Office protocol suggesting a cover-up by its top members; the second, a remarkable interview with Hebrew University Law Prof. Ruth Gavison, raises many questions about the legal...
Loyal Opposition: Professor Ruth Gavison on Judge Barak
Readers unfamiliar with the style of speech typical of the Israeli judicial system might think that the views expressed by Prof. Ruth Gavison in this interview do not deviate much from routine criticism. But her restrained tone, the understatement...
The Stealth Constitution
The defining element of any national constitution is that it expresses the fundamental will of the people. Only to the extent that it expresses those values does it enjoy democratic legitimacy. Even the most obvious characteristic of a constitutio...
Render Unto Caesar
A widely-watched program on Israeli television is called ''Chartzufim,'' a play on Hebrew words that could be translated roughly as ''In Your Face.'' It uses puppets to make satirical comments on current events.