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Legal aid caseload reaches 154,552 files as debt, family disputes dominate report

The annual report details wartime assistance, a Supreme Court debt ruling, and wider access to help for older people facing financial exploitation.

Entrance to the Office of the Minister of Justice, at the Ministry of Justice in Jerusalem, April 7, 2025.
 Saman Abbas.

Italy upholds sentencing for ‘barbaric’ murderers of honor killed teenager Saman Abbas

Attorney Alan Dershowitz returns to the courtroom after a break during former U.S. President Donald Trump's hush money trial at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 20, 2024 in New York City.

Supreme Court rejects Alan Dershowitz appeal to revive defamation lawsuit against CNN

 High Court hearing on petitions seeking the dismissal of National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, April 15, 2026.

High Court freezes Second Authority council after state misses response deadline


On trial at 95: Ursula Haverbeck charged for Holocaust denial in Germany

Haverback was previously sentenced to ten months in prison without parole in 2015. Following the charge, she filed for an appeal and avoided arrest.

Ursula Haverbeck infamously known as 'Nazi grandma.'

Israel's High Court rejects petition of east Jerusalem family facing eviction

The Shhadeh family, from Batan al-Hawa in Silwan, is challenging the ruling made by Judge Noam Solberg, who rejected the family's request to appeal.

 A general view picture shows the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Silwan June 19, 2017.

Parents of Shani Louk, other Nova massacre victims sue 'AP' and 'Reuters'

It was unlikely that the journalists did not know about the massacre ahead of time, given the photographs they took at the very beginning of the attack, yet did not alert authorities.

 A PICTURE OF Shani Nicole Louk, who was missing following the Supernova massacre on October 7, is displayed during a demonstration last month by family members and supporters of hostages who are being held in Gaza after they were kidnapped from Israel by Hamas. Louk’s death was later confirmed by I

Dutch court orders halt to export of F-35 jet parts to Israel

The Netherlands houses one of several regional warehouses of US-owned F-35 parts, from which the parts are distributed to countries that request them.

 F-35 fighter jet.

US court revives challenge to Connecticut rule on transgender athletes in girls' sports

The ruling reviving the 2020 lawsuit comes amid a push by Republican-led states to bar transgender athletes from competing on teams or sports that align with their gender identities.

 Transgender rights activist waves a transgender flag as they protest the killings of transgender women this year, at a rally in Washington Square Park in New York, U.S., May 24, 2019.

Texas Jew on death row granted stay of execution

Jedidiah Murphy was sentenced to death for the fatal 2000 shooting of 80-year-old Bertie Lee Cunningham in Dallas County during a carjacking.

 The bars of a prison cell.

Parents of Michigan teen school shooter to face trial

The case appears to be the first time that parents of a teenage school shooter have been charged for involvement in their offspring's alleged crimes.

 Jennifer Crumbley, parent of accused Oxford High School gunman Ethan Crumbley, listens during a court procedural hearing in Rochester Hills, Michigan, U.S., February 24, 2022.