Commentary

Remarks at a Conference Marking the Retirement of President Grunis

Deputy President Emeritus Eliezer Rivlin

June 21, 2015

Translated by Orly Rachmilovitz

In an event held in a Supreme Court courtroom upon the retirement of President Dorit Beinisch and the beginning of the Justice Asher Grunis’ term as President, I congratulated them both and expressed my confidence that President Grunis would safely sail the Court through troubled waters to a safe haven.

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*Prepared by Orly Rachmilovitz

William Ewald (University of Pennsylvania School of Law)

By Dr. Sharon Frieling, Adv., expert in family and estate law.

Website: http://lawadvice.co.il. (Original post in Hebrew)

Translated by Orly Rachmilovitz

          The recent retirement of President Asher Grunis would probably not be viewed by the legal community in Israel as the end of an era in the history of the Supreme Court. Justice Grunis has always been considered a sophisticated and cautious jurist who specialized in private law. It is also a well-known fact that during his short three-year tenure as President he focused primarily on procedural reforms in order to deal with the heavy caseload pressures on the judicial system.

On January 15th, Miriam Naor was officially appointed Israel’s 11^th Supreme Court President, replacing Asher D. Grunis. She will serve until September 2017, when she will reach the mandatory judicial retirement age of 70.