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The ruling permitted an Aguna whose husband is in a vegetative state to remarry.
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Shaked is probably the most popular rightwing minister today, the only politician in her camp who managed to tame the Supreme Court and clip some of its claws.
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The bill's sponsors also claim that Justice Barak's constitutional revolution 'disrupted the delicate balance between the legislative and judicial branches.'
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Shaked is not ready to commit to the new appointment which, in Hayut's case, would undermine the central agenda of Habayit Hayehudi.
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Danziger sided with Mustafa Dirani, kidnapper of IAF navigator Ron Arad, who wanted to sue Israel for his harsh interrogation.
The High Court-ordered pointless destruction of the nine homes in Ofra began today.
Is the Knesset next on the High Court's hit list?
The change in the Supreme Court in Israel, drones, and transgender bathrooms
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Foreign government-funded 'lawfare' a dangerous subversion of Israel's democracy.
"Congress is willing to hold hearings about other options for the Israel-Palestinian story other than the two-state solution."
Avi Abelow and Caroline Glick discuss the roadblock to reforming the Supreme Court.
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Moments after the law was passed, the three main anti-Zionist NGOs who made it necessary in the first place, Peace Now, Adalah, and Yesh Din, announced they would appeal it at the Supreme Court.
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Supreme Court President Justice Miriam Na'or makes sure the cases that deal with settlements would usually receive panels with an anti-settlement majority.
Can you imagine a Supreme Court judge making rulings based on his own political leanings?
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The myth of ancient ownership of the Judea and Samaria lands by the local Arabs must be busted, repeatedly, using historic facts and persistent messages, because the world is unaware of this Big Lie, and Israel's Supreme Court does not care.
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The two Arab claimants own only a sliver – about half an acre altogether, out of the 125 acres of the Amona territory – less than .5%.
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PM Netanyahu has been on both sides of the fence regarding the new bill, but mostly, people in his circle explained, out of fear of retribution from the Obama Administration.
If the bill passes, it may put an end to the Supreme Court's guillotine hanging over the settlements.
Will the Israeli Supreme Court grant the residents the three months needed to prepare their new homes?
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Netanyahu objects to annexing Ma'ale Adumim at this point, because he is weary of offending the new president by taking for granted his approval to such a sea change.
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If the court now approves of the Civil Administration expropriating lands in Area C to serve an Arab settlement, it might find it difficult in the future to halt similar impounding that would favor Jewish settlements.
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The group that's most underrepresented are the religiously unaffiliated, which accounts for 23% of the general public but is represented by only 0.2% of Congress.
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The Netiv HaAvot neighborhood of Elazar was built in 2001 on land which was later claimed–with the urging and support of Peace Now–by the Mussa family of al-Khader, near Bethlehem.
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The IDF is the only institution that's still trusted widely: trust in the IDF by Jewish Israelis is at 90% (versus 93% last year) and at 82% by all Israelis. Only 32% of Israeli Arabs, however, trust the IDF.
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Should court delays not allow for the relocation plans to swing into motion, the state will prepare temporary housing solutions for the evacuees in nearby Ofra, at the foot of the Amona mountain.
Ari Abramowitz interviews Manya Hillel - resident of Amona.
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The Knesset has maintained most of its status, but that's only because it was very low 25 years ago – 27%. Today it's down to 23%.
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Bennett promised that next the government will impose Israeli sovereignty on the town of Ma'ale Adumim, creating an urban corridor that eliminates any chance for a future contiguous Palestinian State.
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A whopping 80.5% of the Jewish public agree with the recent statement by Ambassador Ron Dermer that “Israel has no doubt that President-elect Trump is a true friend of Israel.”
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Should the new bill be submitted without the retroactive application to Amona, Habayit Hayehudi politicians will be expected to prevent clashes between the residents and security forces.
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'The government of Israel should know that they are hurting us, hurting our future, and scarring us horribly for the rest of our lives.'
The state has confiscated the Marianne flotilla vessel that tried in 2015 to breach Israel's maritime blockade of Gaza.
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The two Arab claimants own only a sliver – about half an acre altogether, out of the 125 acres of the Amona territory – less than .5%.
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Both Minister Moshe Kahlon (Kulanu) and Coalition Chairman David Bitan (Likud) warned that the bill would be suspended should it meet resistance from the Supreme Court.
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In 2014, White House spokesman Josh Earnest described the new, legal occupants of Kfar HaShiloah as individuals "whose agenda, by definition, stokes tensions between Israelis and Palestinians."
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"If, God forbid, you will not manage an arrangement of the homes of Amona's residents ... we will stand as a fortified wall together with thousands who will arrive here from across the country."
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A whopping 25 out of Netanyahu's 30 Knesset Members have signed a commitment to pass the Arrangements Act, which would force a war between the government and the high court.
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This week, Ingraham has been twitter-shaming Obama for not intervening to stop the violent protests against the November elections results. "Where is Pres Obama urging calm?" she tweeted on Saturday.
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"It has been brought to my attention recently that in my city of Jerusalem there are cases which are similar in principle, whereby Arab settlement has been established on Jewish owned land in the eastern part of the city,"
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"Gone are the days when the politicians were guests and the jurists owned the house," say Likud and Habayit Hayehudi MKs.
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The Netanyahu cabinet has been extra careful not to provoke the ire of the retiring emperor on the eve of that portion of his term when he no longer needs to worry about the Jewish vote.
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Justice Na'or's rage was outright Chekhovian.
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Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel (Habayit Hayehudi) may end up being the politician who broke the iron hold of the judicial civil service on Israel's democracy.
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It remains to be seen which way Netanyahu will cleverly evade this crisis, and whether or not he is prepared to either arm wrestle the high court or put down a rightwing rebellion in his own party.
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And now we'll all hold our breath until November 9, when a brave new world might just emerge for Israel…
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Alongside the need to restrain the legislator, Shaked sees a dire need to restrain Israel's expansionist Judiciary.
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Regavim's official mission has nothing to do with Jewish settlements or with the two-state solution.
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Threatened residents are accusing the rightwing members of government, especially Bennett and Shaked, of a lackadaisical approach to Amona's impending doom
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The court has ordered the final date for the evacuation of the entire outpost to be no later than December 25 this year.
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The president of J Street shared how enraged he is by the fact that groups that work in direct defiance of US foreign policy enjoy a tax-exempt status in the US.
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Minister Zeev Elkin called on Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Habayit Hayehudi) to lead a far reaching reform to regain the public's trust in the Supreme Court.
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His DNA was found on the heel of the victim’s sneaker, which was found on the roof of a nearby building.
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According to Liberman, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has been an obstacle to a working solution for the area.
Leaked files show how George Soros is going after Israel through Israeli-Arabs.
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The state of mind of "I can't do it" is the cause of defeat. That's the root of the destruction, said march organizer Yehudit Katsover.
Gilboa, who had served in the elite Sayeret Matkal unit described that harrowing morning.
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The family petitioned the court saying the decision to make all the TV channels carrying the game tonight available to security prisoners, most of whom are members of Hamas, is repugnant.
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The case for both an acquittal and a mistrial appears strong, so that there's little doubt that a conviction would result in an appeal to the civilian Supreme Court.
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In making our selection we looked for true pioneers, people who arrived when a certain situation was at point A, and due to their investment over a lifetime, things moved on to B or even higher in the alphabet.
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The banks fear that if the caps apply retroactively and include severance pay and pensions, a much larger number of bank officials would be seeking to leave before the law goes into effect in October.
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The ongoing behavior of withholding the Get is not pious behavior, therefore one can't demand the privileges and services that a pious person requires, demands or expects.
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The Bennett solution resolves the conflict in a peaceful way, which is not something the Reform and Conservative movements want.
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Last week, a Knesset committee debated a bill proposed by two ultra-Orthodox coalition partners determining that use of public mikvahs will be conducted strictly according to halakha.
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MK Bezalel Smotrich (Habayit Hayehudi) said it was "refreshing to see a conservative approach on the part of the Supreme Court."
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Since the international community relies on the 1947 UN partition plan regarding the legal status of Jerusalem, it refuses to recognize Israeli sovereignty over any part of the city.
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The re-mapping effort of those 62 thousand hectares constitutes a significant increase in the rate of this work, compared with only 20 thousand hectares re-mapped in 2014 and 13 thousand in 2013.
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On Friday morning, a Kulanu politician, Environment Minister Avi Gabbay, announced his resignation on account of the Lieberman appointment.
Following pressure from the Israeli High Court, after the families of the terrorists lied to the Judges (surprise?) saying they wouldn't run celebrations when the terrorist bodies were returned, the police began returning bodies of terrorists - and surprise, the families and friends began to celebrate their martyrs. This morning, Minister Erdan ordered the police […]
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"It's important that the Justice Minister have political power and political ability."
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Justice Uzi Fogelman,said the state should avoid carrying out the destruction of those homes pending a hearing of petitioners’ claims.
The "Turkel Committee" acted swiftly to approve the nomination of a Shin Bet official and a former settler to command the police force.
Government lawyers admitted to the court that there was massive illegal building on the outpost, claimed by leftists as a source of violence.
A court order overruling Deri's "stop work" decision allows Israel Railways to continue maintenance and construction work on Shabbat.
A community in Samaria told the Supreme Court it is working through the offices of Peres and Abbes to find a solution to prevent the planned desecration.
Minister Erdan announced Brig-Gen. Hirsch has been removed as a candidate. Netanyahu charges: "Slander and denigration."
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Cheshin was known for his judicial activism and firmly believed in judicial oversight over Knesset laws.
The good news is that no one, so far, has blamed the "occupation."
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Deputy Minister Litzman is considered by most of his colleagues on both sides of the aisle to be one of the most competent elected officials today.
High Court ordered the "illegal" building to be torn down. Bayit Yehudi MK threatens to tear down coalition government.
European Union-American acceptance of the lie of "Arab Susiya" is a twisted anti-Semitic libel on which the entire Arab claim to all of Israel is based.
"Birth in the Golan Heights: The birthplace that would appear on passports whose bearers were born in the Golan Heights is SYRIA."
The Obama administration dug itself deeper in the hole by its reaction to the Supreme Court ruling upholding U.S. policy against "Jerusalem, Israel."
Shaked: ' the judiciary, rather than the elected representatives of the people, wield the power to govern'
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With just a day to go, Bennett finally gives serious push-back to Netanyahu's threats and inadequate proposals.
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Netanyahu is short-changing Bayit Yehudi. But is Bayit Yehudi tough enough to take advantage of Liberman's sudden exit?
The Ravens' Ray Lewis screamed that violence is never the answer." Unfortunately, he is wrong.
The court unanimously rejected petitions against the Israeli law prohibiting boycotts on Israeli products.
The all-women Hareidi political party wanted to advertise to their constituency.
Eida Hareidit supports punishment for using civil courts.
A ruling against the law will throw the elections into another 30-ring circus.
The Supreme Court indicates it won’t accept her twisted definition of free speech.
By JTA
Today’s hijab ban could be tomorrow’s kippa ban.
The Supreme Court rejected an appeal submitted by six terrorists release in the Gilad Shalit deal. The state is asking for legal sanction to re-arrest the killers and to jail them for the rest of their sentences. Chief Justice Asher Grunis said the appeal would be correctly submitted to the Haifa District Court, but did […]
The US Supreme Court has agreed to examine the question as to whether or not an American citizen born in Jerusalem can have "Israel" listed on his (or her) passport as their country of birth.
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The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled Wednesday against a Minnesota rabbi who claimed he was cut from an airline’s frequent flier program for earning too many miles. Rabbi Binyamin Ginsberg was one of Northwest Airlines’ top fliers when he was cut from its program in 2008. Northwest has since been absorbed by Delta. The rabbi, […]
Netanyahu may have to follow Sharon and form a new party if he insists on selling out to the Kerry-Obama-Abbas trio.
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Average Israelis warned, terror would escalate on Road 443 following the Supreme Court's decision. Now Israeli ministers are forbidden to drive on 443. What's wrong with this picture?
In a last ditch attempt to block the granting of university status to Ariel College, some Israeli universities turned to the Supreme Court to block the decision. Three Supreme Court judges, including the court president ruled against the petition, stating that the process was done properly, confirming Ariel's new upgraded status. For a country that […]
Israel’s Supreme Court has suspended a Rabbinical Court (Beit Din) order that a woman in divorce proceedings allow her baby son, now one year old, to be circumcised. The woman also was ordered to pay a fine of $150 for each day the brit mila is not performed. She originally objected to circumcision because she […]
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A mother in Israel has appealed to the country’s Supreme Court a rabbinical court ruling requiring her to circumcise her son. In her appeal filed Wednesday, the mother said the rabbis cannot order her to circumcise her son, who is now a year old. The Jerusalem rabbinical court last month upheld the ruling of the […]