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5. Supreme Court Justice: Judicial reform ‘fatal blow’ to democracy By World Israel News Staff
January 12, 2023 – Justice Yariv Levin countered that Hayut was behaving like a “political party” who was “inciting protestors.”
Justice Minister Yariv Levin’s judicial reform will deliver a “crushing blow” to judiciary and will be “fatal” for democracy, Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut warned on Thursday.
“Israel will soon mark 75 years of independence as a Jewish and democratic state. Unfortunately, if the people who invented this plan have their way, the 75th year will be remembered as the year in which Israel’s democracy suffered a fatal blow,” Hayut said at an annual legal convention.
“This is an unbridled attack on the judicial system, as if it were an enemy that must be attacked and suppressed,” she went on.
She dismissed the new government’s claim that they were acting according to a majority who elected them, saying, “Anyone who claims this gives them an ‘open check’ to do as they please is exploiting the name of democracy.”
According to Hayut, a court’s autonomy is crucial in ensuring that “the rule of the majority does not turn into the tyranny of the majority,” especially in matters of human rights.
According to Hayut, Levin’s proposed reforms would limit protect individual rights, especially the “override clause,” which would allow the Knesset to re-legislate laws that the Supreme Court had struck down, pending a 61-MK majority.
[Ed.: ‘Let us now pray’ that it WILL BE a fatal blow to Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut’s concept of democracy…]
4. Revolution Underway for Israel’s Judicial System by AFSI Staff
January 12, 2023 – Justice Minister Yariv Levin published for the first time yesterday the draft of his bill to reform Israel’s judicial system.
Among many on the agenda is the goal to change the composition of the committee for the selection of Supreme Court justices. The court’s ability to annul laws enacted by the Knesset will be limited and an Override Clause will be enacted allowing a majority of 61 MKs to repass laws struck down by the Supreme Court.
Further proposed is that each branch of government – the Knesset, the federal government, and the judiciary – determine its own representatives and no branch will interfere in the selection of the representatives of the other branches, nor in the working procedures of the committee or in their judgment and finally in their decisions on the selection of justices.
3. Palestinians Recruit Minors as Terrorists, Then Condemn Israel for Shooting ‘Innocent Children’ by Bassam Tawil
January 12, 2023 at 5:00 am
- Palestinian terror groups are recruiting minors to carry out terrorist attacks while Palestinian leaders and international organizations are screaming that “innocent children are being killed.”
- The Palestinian Authority… glorifies terrorists and rewards them and their families with monthly stipends — essentially a “jobs program” that solicits murder….
- Those who send minors to carry out terror attacks should be held responsible for committing a crime against the Palestinians, for deliberately placing their children in danger, and not only Israel.
- Ayyad, who was killed during violent clashes with Israeli soldiers, had even written a will expressing his desire to die as a “martyr.”
- “I’m happy that God has fulfilled one of my dreams: martyrdom.” So much for being an “innocent child.”
- Palestinian children are brainwashed against Israel from the cradle and are deliberately placed in harm’s way, while the UN and the rest of the world look the other way.
- The UN members who held an emergency session to discuss the visit by a Jew to the Temple Mount are the biggest hypocrites of all. These supposed purveyors of virtue do not want to acknowledge that the Palestinian recruitment of children as soldiers is the real threat to peace and security, and not a Jew walking on the grounds of a holy site in Jerusalem.
- It would have been better for the UN and all those who rushed to condemn Ben-Gvir’s visit had they called an emergency session to see why Palestinian children are being sent by their own people to die in clashes with the Israeli army.
- It would also have been better had the UN held a special session to discuss the Palestinian leadership’s responsibility for its ongoing incitement against Israel and encouraging minors to seek death as “martyrs.”
- The blood of the next Palestinian child killed in battle will be on the hands of the liars in the corridors of the UN and the offices of major newspapers around the world, which continue to ignore Palestinian atrocities against their own people.
2. How Muslims transformed Jerusalem into a sacred city for Islam Dr. Alex Grobman
Egyptians identify with the Pharaohs and Syrians and Lebanese with the Phoenicians, so the Palestinian Arabs decided to claim to be part of the Jebusites, an extinct tribe who lived in Jerusalem before being conquered by the Jews.
Published: Jun 2, 2019, 8:12 AM (GMT+3) Updated: 2:51 PM – President Donald Trump’s historic decision on December 6, 2017 to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital city has elicited a torrent of negative and positive responses. The essential point in Trump’s statement is:
“Today, we finally acknowledge the obvious: that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital. This is nothing more, or less than a recognition of reality.”
Lost in the debate are a number of questions: What constitutes a capital city; when did Jerusalem become Israel’s capital; what is the Jewish relationship to Jerusalem; how did Jerusalem assume such a significant position in Islam?
The National Geographic Society defines a capital as “a city where a region’s government is located. This is where government buildings are and where government leaders work.” According to this definition, Jerusalem is Israel’s capital. The Knesset, Israel’s legislative branch of government, Supreme Court, and the official residences of the Prime Minister and the President are in Jerusalem.
Jerusalem is Israel’s Eternal Capital
When King David established Jerusalem as Israel’s capital city circa 1000 BCE, Jerusalem became the center of the Jewish nation’s sovereignty. Throughout Jewish history, the city has remained Israel’s capital. The centrality of Jerusalem for Jews is mirrored in their daily prayers, holidays, rituals and fervent appeals to G-d for her restoration.
1. Seeing results: Ben-Gvir ‘huge deterrent’ against Arab violence, say Israeli police By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News
January 12, 2023 – The right-wing MK has vowed that under his direction, the police will crack down on widespread Arab crime and violence – not only in Judea and Samaria, but also in the Negev and Galilee.
The appointment of right-wing MK Itamar Ben-Gvir as National Security Minister in the newly established government has had a positive effect in terms of discouraging criminal elements, a police spokesperson said Thursday on Israel Radio.
Asked several times by journalist Rina Matsliah on Reshet Bet if Ben-Gvir’s “new spirit” is already manifest, Commander Eli Levy first replied that police are implementing the new government’s regulations in general, “those of the political-security cabinet and the minister. We’re all partners in this and we’re all in a determined battle against violence and crime in the Arab sector.”
Pressed again, he responded, “I can say that there’s one thing, speaking as someone who’s out there, on the ground … that Itamar Ben-Gvir’s appointment has had a huge deterrent effect, primarily in the Arab sector. There’s a certain sense of caution since he arrived in government.”
