Judiciary

Pay-for-slay: Could the Palestinian Authority be held legally liable for October 7?

LEGAL AFFAIRS: Thousands of plaintiffs are taking the PA to court, arguing that its financial and employment policies toward convicted terrorists create a link to the Hamas massacre.

PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY President Mahmoud Abbas. Thousands of October 7 victims and their families are seeking to hold the PA civilly liable, arguing that its long-standing prisoner payment and employment policies helped sustain terrorists who return to violence.
View of the empty courtroom at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on July 13, 2025.

Israel might be headed towards its own January 6 moment - opinion

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen after a court hearing in his trial, at the District Court in Jerusalem, June 29, 2026

Why Netanyahu rejected compromise with Noam Sohlberg in probing October 7 - analysis

Minister of Communications Shlomo Karhi attends the Special Committee for the Communications Law at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, June 29, 2026

Netanyahu is pushing Israel toward a constitutional crisis by ignoring court ruling - editorial


Labor court to hear anti-racism czar political discrimination firing

The High Court rejected Zena's petition demanding a conditional order against the Justice Ministry and civil service for an explanation for his termination.

 AWEKE KOBE ZENA: Seizing the opportunity.

Is Israel's new judicial reform law leverage for Netanyahu? - analysis

The prime minister sends a message that the coalition doesn't need the opposition to negotiate to advance its judicial agenda.

 PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu holds last Sunday’s cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, as Justice Minister Yariv Levin looks on.

Israeli court orders to evict 500 Bedouin from unrecognized village

The residents had argued that they owned and resided on the land for generations, prior to the 1970 Land Law that registered land and established state-owned real estate.

 A man stands near a structure that was demolished by Israeli authorities, at the Bedouin village of Khirbet al-Hamidiyeh, in the northern Jordan Valley, on June 17, 2023

High Court hearing on Judicial Selection Committee set for September

The petitioners argued that Levin was abusing his role as justice minister to further political considerations.

 K SIMCHA ROTHMAN with Justice Minister Yariv Levin in the Knesset on Wednesday.

Israel's Bar joins barrage of High Court petitions against new law

The purpose of the law, the Israeli Bar contended, was to "immunize" the heads of the executive authority from acting within the bounds of reason.

 Judicial reform opponent Amit Becher casts his ballot for the head of the Israeli Bar Association, at a voting station in Tel Aviv on June 20, 2023.

Anti-reform protestors are a testament to Israeli resilience and strength - opinion

Determined men, women, and children refuse to give up their fight against the judicial reforms despite the government’s steadfast pursuit of its agenda. 

 SHELLEY GOLDMAN protests at Kaplan Street in Tel Aviv. Her sticker reads: ‘Loyal to the Declaration of Independence.’

Israeli protesters block Highway 4, handcuff themselves to blockades

Protests against Israel's judicial reform sprang up all over the country on Monday.

 Protests against the judicial reform in Rehovot, May 20, 2023.

Law Committee holds last session before reasonableness bill reservations

The reservation amendments will be voted on by the committee, and if rejected added to the bill during final reading votes at the Knesset.

 MK Simcha Rotman, Head of the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee leads a committee meeting on the planned judicial reform, at the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem on July 4, 2023.

Israel Police call on judicial reform protesters to avoid 'disaster' at Ben-Gurion Airport

Leaders of the Kaplan protest group attacked the airport authority as having been subject to political takeover.

 Israelis protest against the Israeli government's planned judicial overhaul, at the Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, March 9, 2023.

Jewish quotas were at the heart of Supreme Court affirmative action ruling

In 1922, Harvard’s president, A. Lawrence Lowell, noticed a precipitous rise in the number of Jews accepted to the university and proposed accepting a quota of only 15% Jewish students.

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