Law

The latest on legal issues, criminal investigations, Supreme Court rulings, trial coverage, new laws, legislation and more across Israel.

 Israeli Golani soldiers seen during a firing training in a fire range at the Golani divisional training base, on August 1, 2021.

IDF officers imprisoned, suspended for firing weapons naked

 AN ULTRASOUND examination for a pregnant woman at a gynecology clinic in Tel Aviv.

When can cell tissue be called human? – study

By DANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
 A PROTESTER HOLDS a banner during a protest attended by about a dozen people outside the offices of the Israeli cyber firm NSO Group in Herzliya, last week.

End police use of spyware until it's regulated - Public Defender’s Office

 Adv. Erica Solomon Veser and Adv. Roi Biton, co-CEOs of LAWYERS

AI legal learning aid set to help Israel’s law students pass Bar exam

 THE SUPREME COURT in Jerusalem – a focus of change in Israeli society over the last 75 years.

The major legal issues of the last 75 years that altered Israeli society

 National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci listens with Vice President Mike Pence as U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the daily coronavirus briefing at the White House in Washington, US, March 17, 2020

Trump loses appeal to block Pence's testimony in Jan 6 probe

By REUTERS
 A keyboard is seen reflected on a computer screen displaying the website of ChatGPT, an AI chatbot from OpenAI, in this illustration picture taken Feb. 8, 2023.

EU lawmakers call for summit to control 'very powerful' AI

By REUTERS
 The scene of a terror attack on Dizengoff street, in central Tel Aviv, March 9, 2023

Are 'armed settlers' legitimate military targets under int'l law? - analysis

 Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his trial hearing, May 11, 2022.

Netanyahu's criminal trial to be expedited, Yair Lapid to testify in spring - report

Members of the Proud Boys and supporters of US President Donald Trump show up at the US Capitol Building over an hour before supporters began to storm the building in Washington, US, January 6, 2021.

Proud Boy tells jury he had no plan to attack US Capitol before Jan. 6

By REUTERS
 Lucy, Maia and Rina Dee who were murdered in the Jordan Valley terror attack.

Justifications of Dee sisters', mother's murder contrary to int'l law - analysis

 CLEARLY, THE BIG hametz controversy is a crummy excuse for Idit Silman’s behavior.

Pregnant woman banned from entering hospital with hametz

By ELIAV BATITO/MAARIV ONLINE
 NATIONAL SECURITY Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir addresses the media. US media portrays the Israeli government as influenced by a minister who fires a police commander for not quelling demonstrations against him, says the writer.

Ben-Gvir must respect rule of law on detention of Huwara riot suspects - editorial

 BURNING HAMETZ in Jerusalem before the start of Passover.

Let them eat cake: What's at stake with Israel's controversial Hametz law?

US actress Diane Neal poses during the opening ceremony of the 52nd Monte-Carlo Television Festival in Monaco June 10, 2012

This famous Jewish actress is making aliyah to Israel

Moises Katumbi speaks at the European Jewish Association's Jerusalem Day gala in Brussels, Belgium on June 4, 2016.

Law barring DR Congo’s only Jewish politician from presidency reconsidered

By DAVID KLEIN/ JTA
 IN 1980, justice Aharon Barak decided that Jewish law would be merely a source of inspiration to judges. In 2019, he disavowed his 1980 decision.

Israel is neither halachic or Western, it is a unique democracy - opinion

By HANAN SHAI
 President Isaac Herzog leads the first round of judicial reform negotiations in the President's Residence in Jerusalem on March 28, 2023

Are new preconditions for judicial reform talks emerging? - analysis

 Workers prepare matza, traditional unleavened bread eaten during the 8-day Jewish holiday of Passover, in "Yehuda Matzos" Plant in Jerusalem April 4, 2022.

Bill that enables hospitals to ban hametz on Passover passes into law

 Workers prepare ballot boxes for the upcoming Israeli elections, at the central elections committee warehouse in Shoham, before they are shipped to polling stations, October 12, 2022.

Likud MK retracts law to change Central Election Committee chair selection

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