High Court of Justice

High Court says Ohana breached ruling, but leaves comptroller vote to next Knesset

Judges condemn months of delay as key oversight powers remain blocked; speaker and Knesset ordered to pay NIS 10,000 in costs.

Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana speaks during a plenum session at the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, May 20, 2026.
Chief Justice Esther Hayut and fellow Israeli Supreme Court judges at the High Court in Jerusalem

Knesset asks High Court to close challenges to academic gender-segregation law

A prison officer handcuffs a colleague as part of a drill at the third organised crime unit (drug-trafficking district) during a press tour at Reau prison, near Paris on July 30, 2026.

Police officer charged with sex offenses against two colleagues

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


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)

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

Sohlberg bars UTJ turnout reports from polling stations; watchdog urges enforcement

The order followed a petition filed by the Movement for Quality Government in Israel over concerns that the party was violating a High Court of Justice ruling.

 Central Elections Committee head, Supreme Court Justice Noam Sohlberg, leads a hearing at the Central Elections Committee, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, September 23, 2026

Hebron business demolitions carried out without prior hearing, state tells High Court

The IDF cited urgent security risks, as business owners denied involvement in the deadly attack, alleging collective punishment.

A view of the scene of a deadly shooting attack at the Yehuda Junction checkpoint near the West Bank city of Hebron, where two Israeli soldiers were murdered and three others wounded by Palestinian gunmen the previous day, October 24, 2026.

Bread as a weapon: The ugly pedigree of ‘no service, no shekel’ - opinion

The idea that those who do not serve should not be fed has a pedigree — Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Hitler — and a Jewish history that Israel, of all countries, should remember. The strategy never succeeds.

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Golan, Winter receives Shin Bet security two days before election, following party petitions

State representatives presented a security plan for Golan and pledged to update it in accordance with the latest threat assessments.

Yair Golan highlights weapons seized during raids on Arab organized crime gangs, August 10, 2026.

High Court blocks Likud-backed digital voter tracking at polling stations ahead of elections

The High Court rules 2-1 against real-time voter counting by political party representatives ahead of Israel's 2026 elections.

 An Israeli man walks with his son to cast his ballot on the day of Israel's general election in a polling station in Rahat, Israel November 1, 2022.

Israel’s next government must confront the future of the West Bank - opinion

Does Israel intend to move toward permanent sovereignty over the West Bank, toward a negotiated territorial arrangement, or toward some other defined political framework?

 MAN walks in the Jewish outpost of Yahish Zion, near the Jewish settlement of Psagot, in the West Bank; Illustrative.

Foreign journalists still cannot enter Gaza without military escort, Israel tells High Court

The association asked the court to allow entry while the case remained pending, require the state to formally justify the restrictions, or alternatively hold an urgent hearing.

Palestinian journalists report on the war and ongoing humanitarian crisis in the central Gaza Strip, July 26, 2025.

Palestinian farmers petition High Court over three years of blocked access to West Bank land

The Association for Civil Rights in Israel, which submitted the petition on their behalf, is seeking an urgent hearing as the olive harvest begins.

Illustrative: A Palestinian farmer gestures during the harvest season, in Palestinian-owned olive groves in Beit Anan, near Ramallah, in the West Bank, October 15, 2026.