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Police raiding a law office in Tira without a warrant to seize CCTV footage that could contain evidence relating to a murder, April 13, 2025.

Police raid law office without warrant, threaten staff, seize CCTV footage

‘The Tenth Plague: Killing the Firstborn Son,’ from a collection by Joseph Mallord and William Turner.

The tragedy of the firstborn: Inherent legal, societal burdens of the eldest child

By HAIM KATZ , SAM KATZ

Eliad Shraga, Founder of The Movement for Quality Government

If we don't take a stand, who will?

By TALIA LEVIN , In collaboration with the Movement for Quality Government

Russian oligarch and politician Roman Abramovich arrives at the Western Wall for his son’s Bar Mitzvah, in the Old City of Jerusalem on December 20, 2022.

Court rules media lacked evidence in tax evasion report on Roman Abramovich

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

THE KNESSET will return to session next week amid the temporary freeze in the judicial reform legislation.

Knesset passes bill to form national authority to fight poverty

By ELIAV BREUER

Paul Pescal.

Former model arrested in violent robbery dressed as Wolt delivery man

By Walla!

The Knesset building, home of Israel's legislature, in Jerusalem, on November 14, 2022 (Illustrative).

Opposition leaders to 'act in full cooperation' against judicial reform bill

By ELIAV BREUER

RELIGIOUS SERVICES MINISTER Michael Malkieli speaks at a swearing-in ceremony for new chief rabbis, at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, last year.

For Israel’s Jewish future, we must retain the power of the people

A gavel and the scales of justice.

Meitar reclaims title of Israel's biggest law firm

By Nitsan Shafir/Globes/TNS

JERUSALEM AFFAIRS and Jewish Tradition Minister Meir Porush addresses the Knesset plenum.

Multitasking haredi politicians: One hand writes the laws, the other undermines them

By ELIYAHU BERKOVITS

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends his trial on corruption charges at the district court in Tel Aviv.

A change in law needed: Israel must find a solution to never-ending trial of Netanyahu

By Attorney Eyal Rosovsky

Artificial Intelligence Illustration

Supreme court justice calls out lawyer for citing AI-generated 'phantom rulings'

By BINI ASHKENAZI

Pictures of Israelis who were murdered by Hamas terrorists at the Nova festival placed outside the Knesset in Jerusalem on February 7, 2024

Terror victims file NIS 1.255 billion claim against Palestinian Authority

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Hamas terrorists gesture on the day of the handover of hostages held in Gaza since the deadly October 7, 2023 attack, to members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) as part of a ceasefire and a hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel, in Gaza City, February 1, 2025.

CAM calls for legal action against countries aiding Hamas

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Construction in Tel Aviv on December 3, 2024.

Pearl Cohen merges with San Francisco IP firm

By GLOBES/TNS

US President Donald Trump takes oath on the day of his Presidential Inauguration at the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, US, January 20, 2025.

Trump administration fires team of lawyers who prosecuted him, official says

By REUTERS

People in a restaurant in Orta, with the nearby UNESCO site Sacro Monte and San Giulio island.

Italian government proposes law to combat fake online reviews

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar (L) and Justice Minister Yariv Levin (R) at the Supreme Court (illustrative)

Israeli gov't presents judicial reform compromise for appointing High Court justices

By YONAH JEREMY BOB