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Analysis and Discussion Concerning the Supreme Court of Israel

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 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 Avinoam Sharon
November 01, 2018

The Israeli Supreme Court Blog

This issue of the Israeli Supreme Court Blog presents summaries of the recent decisions in LAA 7216/18 Lara Alqasem v....

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by Avinoam Sharon
July 25, 2018

The Israeli Supreme Court Blog

 

The Israeli Supreme Court Blog is part of the  Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law’s Israeli Supreme Court Project. It is intended to supplement the...

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by Avinoam Sharon
May 30, 2018

This issue of the Israeli Supreme Court Blog presents an abstract of the Supreme Court’s decision of May 24, 2018, addressing the lawfulness of the IDF’s rules of engagement during the recent events on the Gaza border (HCJ 3003/18), and refers to...

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by Orly Rachmilovitz
June 06, 2016

There are at least three contexts in which the Court has grappled with Palestinians’ property rights and to which it has recently devoted attention: home demolitions, absentee properties, and the legality of settlements. As the Court notes, the...

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by Orly Rachmilovitz
January 17, 2016

Over the past three months, the Israeli Supreme Court has been called upon in at least three cases to revisit the issue of military demolition of the homes of Palestinians who have committed (or are suspected of having committed) acts of terror...

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