Israel Bar Association

'Dangerous incitement': Bar Association demands Smotrich remove AI video featuring justices, A-G

The Bar Association claimed that the AI-generated video, which depicts Israeli justices being dragged away from a protest, was an "attempt to intimidate" the Judicial system.

|ByANNA BARSKY, GILAD MORAG
Finance Minister and head of the Religious Zionist Party Bezalel Smotrich attends RZP's primaries event ahead of the upcoming elections, in Jerusalem, July 26, 2026.
Supreme Court President Isaac Amit addressing the special Israel Bar Association conference in Tel Aviv on September 2, 2026..

Supreme Court president warns of physical violence against legal figures after vebal attacks

“The path to physical violence first passes through verbal violence,” Amit told a special Israel Bar Association conference in Tel Aviv, convened following the killing of attorney Arbel Feldman.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
Raphael Lemkin

My cousin gave the world the word ‘genocide’ – don’t let anyone profit from it - opinion

Raphael Lemkin was my cousin. He was a Polish Jewish lawyer who watched the Nazis murder dozens of our relatives and sat down and invented a word for the crime he could not otherwise name - genocide.

|ByJOSEPH LEMKIN
Supreme Court President Isaac Amit arrives for a hearing on a petition concerning the continuation of the criminal investigation into alleged leaks in the “Sde Teiman” affair at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, May 31, 2026.

High Court presses state over judicial selection overhaul, warns of political incentives

High Court hears petitions challenging the judicial selection overhaul, all 11 justices question whether the changes shift appointments toward political control and threaten judicial independence.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN

Israel's Bar Association cancels appointment of lawyer who defends terrorists

The Bar Association decided on Monday to freeze the appointment of Lea Tsemel to head its Military Courts Committee, which it had approved the previous day.

JANUARY 14, 2020ByDEBORAH DAHAN
Advocate, a joint Israeli, Canadian and Swiss production, will have its world premiere in the World Cinema documentary competition

Efi Nave, judge to be indicted in sex for judgeship scandal

Nave is suspected of having sexual relationships with Eti Karif and with a female lawyer whose husband is a magistrate’s court judge and was seeking promotion to become a district judge.

DECEMBER 3, 2019ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
Efi Nave in court

Bar Association election set for next week

Who will replace the scandal soaked Efi Nave?

JUNE 12, 2019ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
Efi Naveh appears in court, January 16th, 2019