High Court of Justice

Israel's judicial reform legislation blitz will reach Supreme Court, chief justice warns

In a rare radio interview with KAN Reshet Bet marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Amit addressed the deepening constitutional crisis surrounding the government’s judicial reform agenda.

Supreme Court President Isaac Amit arrives for a court hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, December 23, 2025
An Israeli soldier holds an Army Radio microphone in Jerusalem, December 22, 2025

As High Court review nears, state defends decision to shutter Army Radio

 The High Court of Justice held a hearing on a petition challenging the state’s continued refusal to allow journalists to enter the Gaza Strip without a military escort on Monday January 26, 2026.

High Court hears challenge to ban on independent journalistic access to Gaza

 ATTORNEY-GENERAL Gali Baharav-Miara attends a meeting of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee in April. Israeli democracy is actually shockingly half-baked, the writer argues.

Attorney-general: Proposed cabinet rule changes would enable unlawful government action


A-G to Netanyahu: Gov’t must enforce draft repercussions against evaders post-High Court ruling

A-G Baharav-Miara informs Netanyahu that the government must implement criminal and economic sanctions against draft evaders within 45 days.

 Ultra-Orthodox Jews clash with police outside the IDF Recruitment Center at Tel Hashomer, central Israel, April 28, 2025

Netanyahu trial: Court shortens Monday hearing as scheduling changes continue

The latest change follows several recent adjustments to the trial schedule.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset, November 10, 2025.

Levin petitions High Court to void interim order freezing Ben-Hamo’s appointment

Levin challenges High Court over its intervention in the Sde Teiman investigation, urging it to approve retired Judge Ben-Hamo's appointment and arguing the AG's initial involvement is compromised.

Minister of Justice Yariv Levin attends a plenum session at the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, November 19, 2025.

Allow Gazans medical treatment in West Bank, east Jerusalem, human rights orgs. tells High Court

Only three hospitals remain fully operational in Gaza, while two-thirds of the 647 medical facilities that were operational before the war are now out of service, the petitioners show.

Armed Palestinians seen secure trucks loaded with Humanitarian Aid entering Gaza through the Israeli Kerem Shalom Crossing, in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, September 19, 2025.

Denial as policy: Why Israel's government fears a real October 7 inquiry - opinion

Middle Israel: A century after Hindenburg turned failure into a “stab-in-the-back,” Israel’s government now takes a page from his book.

Yariv Levin (left), Benjamin Netanyahu, and Itamar Ben-Gvir in the Knesset last year. The question is whether  this brazen effort to bury the truth will work, and the answer is it won’t.

Levin signs official notice appointing Judge Ben-Hamo to lead Sde Teiman video leak investigation

“How much will we continue to challenge High Court decisions? We need to understand that this is the final word, that this is the decision!" said Investigator Asher Kula

 Protesters gather outside Sde Teiman detention facility after some of them broke in, after Israeli military police arrived at the site as part of an investigation into the suspected abuse of a Palestinian detainee, near Beersheba, in southern Israel, July 29, 2024.

Oct. 7 inquiry: Gov't has two months to explain why it won't establish State COI

The High Court of Justice announced that the government has been given until January 4, 2025, to explain why it won't establish a State commission of inquiry into the failures of October 7. 

A damaged sukkah outside a house, stands there since the deadly October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas, as the Kibbutz Nir Oz community commemorates those killed during the attack, in Kibbutz Nir Oz, southern Israel, October 6, 2025.

Israeli government must enforce policy against IDF draft evaders, High Court of Justice rules

The court issued an absolute order, requiring the state to act diligently and swiftly to initiate real criminal proceedings against haredi draft-evaders.

Sign held at protest against haredi draft reads: "Undettered by arrests, trembling from the targets," in reference to the IDF's set targets for haredi constription, Jerusalem, October 30, 2025.

‘Stage two’ of Karhi’s controversial broadcasting bill proposes radio reform

Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi launches "stage two" of his media overhaul with a plan to reshape Israel’s radio market, despite legal warnings and mounting opposition.

Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi seen at a plenum session at the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem on October 22, 2025

High Court orders Chief Rabbinate to decide on Tzohar’s kashrut license after year-long delay

The 2021 legislation opened the possibility for independent bodies to issue kosher certifications, but until now, the rabbinate had not initiated any applications or licensing processes.

KASHRUT CERTIFICATION at a Jerusalem eatery – will the rabbinate’s monopoly be broken?