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Analysis and Discussion Concerning the Supreme Court of Israel

by Avinoam Sharon
February 12, 2024

In view of the importance of the Israeli Supreme Court’s recent decision in HCJ 5658/23 Movement for Quality Government in Israel v. The Knesset (the “reasonableness” decision) and the broad interest in this landmark case, we have decided to...

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by Avinoam Sharon
January 08, 2024

Recent Developments in Israeli Law

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In this update we report on the Israeli Supreme Court’s recent decision in HCJ 5658/23...

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by Avinoam Sharon
July 15, 2021

Judgments of Interest:

The Israeli Supreme Court published its annual list of the Court’s most important decisions delivered between September 2019 and December 2020. Below, we present abstracts of selected cases, and...

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by Avinoam Sharon
May 27, 2020

The various measures adopted by the Israeli Government to confront the Covid-19 pandemic brought a flurry of petitions before the Supreme Court. The petitions ranged from a request to declare a Jewish leap year in order to delay Passover, to...

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by Avinoam Sharon
April 22, 2020

Due to the high rate of incidence of the coronavirus in the city of Bnei Brak, on April 2, 2020, the Israeli Government declared the city a “restricted zone” for a period of six days, effectively putting the entire city under quarantine. The...

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by Avinoam Sharon
March 20, 2020

In response to the corona virus epidemic, the Israeli government promulgated two sets of emergency regulations: (1) Emergency Regulations (Authorization of the Israel Security Agency to aid in the national effort to limit the spread of the new...

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by Ari Mermelstein
March 26, 2019

Video of Professor Yehudah Mirsky's lecture at Cardozo entitled "What's a Nation-State For?: Reflections on Law, Religion and...

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by Avinoam Sharon
December 24, 2018

The Israeli Supreme Court Blog

In this issue of the Israeli Supreme Court Blog we present abstracts of four recent decisions of the Israeli Supreme Court.

On Dec. 12, 2018, the Court delivered its...

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by Ari Mermelstein
December 20, 2018

Rivka Weill, Professor of Law at the Radzyner Law School, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), has just posted "The Strategic Commonlaw Court of Aharon Barak and its Aftermath: On...

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