Sarah Ben-Nun

Sarah is the legal affairs correspondent and former night editor for The Jerusalem Post . She split her childhood between Israel and the US, granting her a deep understanding of both communities. After completing her National Service in Israel, Sarah went on to study at Yeshiva University. She holds a BA in Journalism.

Ballot slip for the Ra'am party.

Court lifts restrictions on suspect in alleged Ra'am election bribery scheme

Former attorney-general Avichai Mandelblit testifies in Netanyahu trial, October 26, 2026.

Did police overstep? Mandelblit pressed on limits of Netanyahu investigation in Case 2000

A Palestinian man seen with his sheep in a Bedouin village in the northern Jordan Valley, on June 17, 2023.

High Court demands answers on safe return of displaced Palestinian Bedouin community


Foreign interference suspicions don’t undermine election's integrity, CEC chief Sohlberg says

The Central Elections Committee chairman also stressed that nothing in his statement was intended to cast aspersions on the voting of the Arab community.

Supreme Court Justice Noam Sohlberg attends a court hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on petitions seeking to overturn the election of attorney Michael Rabello as State Comptroller, June 18, 2026.

'Deserves to die': Court charges man with incitement to kill Netanyahu, coalition figures

The indictment lists 21 posts published by the Ein Hahoresh man ahead of the Knesset election, including calls to behead Likud MK Almog Cohen.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at Likud headquarters following the release of exit polls.

Third man sent to prison after stealing sound systems from murdered Nova festival victim

The stolen systems belonged to a company co-owned by Matan Lior and his business partner, Amitai Rahum. Lior was murdered at the festival after helping evacuate festival-goers under fire.

Matan Lior, killed during the October 7 Nova music festival massacre. The text decribes him as "a hero of Israel."

High Court approves demolition of Palestinian rocket suspect's home, rejects family's appeal

Writing the main opinion, Justice Yael Willner ruled that preparations for repeated rocket attacks posed exceptional danger, justifying the apartment's demolition despite the attack being thwarted.

Armed Israeli soldiers stand guard as heavy machinery demolishes a residential building in the village of Khirbet Qalqas, south of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, on June 8, 2026.  (Illustrative)

Shin Bet probes foreign election interference, warns against blaming Arab voters

The Shin Bet says its inquiry into suspected foreign funding is unfinished and limited, and must not be used to discredit Arab citizens who voted lawfully.

A woman votes during the national election in the Arab city of Umm al-Fahm, northern Israel, October 27, 2026

Israel extradites Israeli-Russian citizen to US over alleged USD 2.8 million crypto theft

The case concerns allegations that he exploited a security flaw in August 2022 to obtain digital tokens - without depositing the assets that were supposed to back them -  and took the proceeds.

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High Court freezes broadcasting law, orders answers on legislative defects

In September, Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara asked the High Court of Justice to freeze the Broadcasting Law until it rules on 11 petitions challenging it.

Minister of Communications Shlomo Karhi attends the Special Committee for the Communications Law at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, June 29, 2026

The future Israel cannot ignore: Opposition must speak to the country it hopes to lead - comment

Arab citizens cannot be approached as potential partners only when their votes become necessary, while the harder conversation about their place in the country is postponed until another election.

Arabs cast their votes at a polling station in the mixed Jewish-Arab city of Lod; illustrative.

High Court presses KKL to resume talks over hundreds of Jerusalem homes on former church land

Hundreds of Jerusalem homeowners face uncertainty over leases on former Greek Orthodox Church land as the High Court demands progress in stalled negotiations.

Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, Theophilos III, attends the Washing of the Feet ceremony outside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City on April 29, 2021.

Court orders house arrest for security coordinator charged with shooting Palestinian woman

Ran faces charges of causing serious injury with aggravated intent and obstruction of justice in an indictment filed on Friday.

Pinchas Shem Tov Ran, an Israeli civilian security coordinator accused of shooting and seriously wounding a Palestinian woman in the West Bank, arrives at the Jerusalem District Court following his indictment, October 23, 2026.