Judges

Jewish Pennsylvania judge leaves Democratic Party citing ‘disturbingly common’ antisemitism

Judge David Wecht said in a statement that he believed antisemitism has moved from the fringe of the Democratic Party to the mainstream.

David Wecht campaigning for Pennsylvania Supreme Court in 2015.
Judea and Samaria military court judge Uriel Dreyfus

A century since Dreyfus's wrongful conviction, a family member is promoted in the IDF

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

High Court gives Levin until Thursday to say when he will convene Judicial Selection Committee

Israeli attorney general Gali Baharav Miara at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem

A-G: Levin’s partial plan to convene judge selection panel does not end High Court case


Why is changing Israeli judge appointment system dangerous? - opinion

The politicization of the Supreme Cour could damage the entire legal system and Israel’s ability to continue functioning as a vital democracy.

 PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Likud’s faction in the Knesset, last week. Threats from the Likud Central Committee may be inserted into the selection procedure for the most important judicial institution in Israel, says the writer.

Who should lead the struggle in Israel for the judiciary's defense?

MIDDLE ISRAEL: Netanyahu’s refusal to seek a consensus repeats Rabin’s mistake when he launched the Oslo Accords.

Former Chief Justice of Supreme Court and holocaust survivor Aharon Barak at the President's residence in Jerusalem, on April 4, 2021.

Israel's legal reform: A counterrevolution to the constitutional revolution?

LEGAL AFFAIRS: Veteran observers of the legal system explore whether the reform is a counter-constitutional revolution – or an anti-constitutional revolution.

 MK Simcha Rothman and Justice Minister Yariv Levin present next steps for judicial reforms at Knesset legal committee.

Israel's judiciary shows its limited power

LEGAL AFFAIRS: According to leaks from the coalition negotiation room, a new arrangement is planned that will end the masquerade ball that has accompanied this saga for over 50 years.

 THE JUSTICES of the Supreme Court justices arrive for a court hearing in October.

Retired judges, university heads decry new coalition

Open University president: Israel is facing ‘a murky wave that threatens the foundations of the democratic existence’ of Israel.

 The Knesset Plenum ahead of the vote for the new Knesset Speaker, December 13, 2022.

Changing Israel judicial appointments only possible with broad consensus - opinion

While specific minor adjustments to the current system may be called for, I believe that its underlying principles are sound and that it would be a mistake to stray from them.

 THEN-JUSTICE minister Ayelet Shaked is flanked by Supreme Court President Esther Hayut and then-finance minister Moshe Kahlon at a meeting of the Judicial Selection Committee, at the Justice Ministry in Jerusalem, in 2018.

Rachel Freier: Civil court judge, parademic, Hasid and mother of 6

Freier discusses the changing public perception of Hasidim and relations between religious and secular Jews.

 Hon. Ruchie Freier

Wisconsin parade attacker sentenced to life in prison without parole

The judge symbolically added at least another 1,067 years to the life sentences to underscore the severity of the crimes for which she said Brooks showed "no remorse, no empathy."

Darrell Brooks, charged with killing five people and injuring nearly 50 after plowing through a Christmas parade with his sport utility vehicle on November 21, appears in Waukesha County Court in Waukesha, Wisconsin, US November 23, 2021.

Attackers injure pro-Russia judge who sentenced foreigners to death in Ukraine

The three men, who Pushilin described as "Nazi war criminals," were released in September as part of a major prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia.

 Smoke rises after a missile strike, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine in this screen grab taken from a handout video released July 16, 2022.

Neal Hendel: A US oleh who rose to the top of Israel's judicial system

Who is Israeli judge Neal Hendel in terms of where his decisions are on the spectrum of critical debates over judicial liberalism versus conservatism?

 AN AERIAL view of the Supreme Court building in Jerusalem.