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Analysis and Discussion Concerning the Supreme Court of Israel

by Avinoam Sharon
March 29, 2020

On March 20, 2020, we reported the High Court of Justice’s interim order of March 19, 2020, in the matter of the emergency regulations issued to permit the collection...

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by Avinoam Sharon
March 24, 2020

On Sunday, March 22, 2020, the Supreme Court addressed a petition to order the Chief Rabbinate to intercalate the Hebrew calendar. The Petitioner sought to delay Passover by thirty days due to the current corona virus emergency.

The Court...

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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 05, 2019

Judgments of Interest:

The justices of the Israeli Supreme Court published a list of the Court’s most important decisions delivered between Rosh Hashana 5779 (Sept. 9, 2018) and Rosh Hashana 5780 (Sept. 29, 2019). An...

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by Avinoam Sharon
May 30, 2019

In November 2015, the Kedem Auction House published a catalogue announcing the auction of documents presented as: “...

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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
March 24, 2019

In this update we report on the Supreme Court’s recent judgment in four challenges to decisions of the Central Elections Committee for the 21st Knesset, an appeal of a judgment of the National Labor Court on the question of whether...

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by Avinoam Sharon
February 03, 2019

A new database is now available to provide researchers with statistical data on the Israeli Supreme Court’s judgments.

The Israeli Supreme Court Database  (ISCD) is a Big-Data database...

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