Viewpoints
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 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
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 Orly Rachmilovitz
July 19, 2015

The Comparative Project: A Synopsis of Presentations from Panel One of the ISCP's inaugural conference, Constitutional Conflicts and the Judicial Role in...

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May 17, 2015

In a landmark decision handed down in April, Avneri v. The Knesset, HCJ 5239/11, the...

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by Yoav Dotan
March 24, 2015

          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...

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