ISRAEL (IINO)
88% Rise in Israeli Women Obtaining Gun Licenses By Pesach Benson, TPS
44% of the women receiving licenses were residents of Judea and Samaria, according to National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.
The number of Israeli women with permits to carry a gun has jumped 88% over the last seven months, according to numbers released by Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir on Sunday.
Ben-Gvir added 44% of the women receiving licenses were residents of Judea and Samaria.
“The policy that I have been leading in the Ministry of National Security since I took office is to grant a weapon license to those who meet the criteria, so that they can protect themselves and their surroundings,” Ben-Gvir said. “Women who want to protect themselves and their families is a welcome thing, and I am happy that on my watch we see a big increase on this level as well.”
Calls for eligible Israelis to carry guns began coming from Israel’s Security Cabinet, after a Palestinian terrorist gunned down people outside a Jerusalem synagogue in January, killing seven.
In a bid to clear a backlog of requests for licenses, Ben-Gvir expanded qualifications to include former and current soldiers, reservists, security forces, and emergency workers, as well as medical workers, among others. Volunteer emergency responders who have been with a recognized rescue organization for at least one year will also receive favorable status if they seek a firearm license.
[Ed.: Imho, regular citizens should qualify to get licensed the same. Why can’t they protect themselves and their families?? To pass the test for a license, you need training one way or the other. If/when you pass the test, you get licensed.]
Israeli Hero Murdered in Tel Aviv Attack, ‘Blocked Terrorist with His Body’ By JNS
Aug. 6, 2023 – Security guard Chen Amir, 42, is survived by his wife and three daughters.
An Israeli man was killed on Saturday evening in a Palestinian terror attack in the heart of Tel Aviv.
The incident began when two municipal patrol officers attempted to question a suspicious individual at the corner of Montefiore and Allenby streets. He ignored their overtures, drew a handgun and opened fire on them, hitting one, identified as Chen Amir, 42.
The second guard then chased after the terrorist, shooting and killing him.
[Ed.: We still think that keeping musloids around is helpful for our image! … So, what good is that? Meir Kahane (Z”L) was right! They must go!]]
ESTHER HAYUT SETS ISRAEL ON FIRE by Caroline Glick
August 6, 2023 – Apparently, all a judge needs to rule the way he or she wants is to place themselves above the Knesset, the laws it passes and the government charged with executing them.
(JNS) Outgoing Supreme Court president Esther Hayut is playing the short game. She wants to clear her desk, finish the work she set out to achieve when she took over as Supreme Court head in late 2017 and let the chips fall where they may.
Shortly before Hayut assumed office, she set out her judicial vision in an address before the Bar Association. The central challenge facing the court, she declared, was surmounting the rule of law.
Comparing herself and her colleagues to God, she bloviated: “There’s a disadvantage that we flesh and blood judges have in comparison to the Creator of the Universe. Even in the situations where we understand fairly quickly the dilemma that brought the petitioners before us, it often happens that the solution we view as just and proper isn’t possible under the practice and requirements of law. These situations in my view are among the most difficult and complex ones that we as judges are called upon to contend with.
“How do we bridge the gap between the law and what is right? Finding an answer to this question, discovering the secret … ‘spice’ is perhaps one of the greatest tasks that lies before us as judges.”
Now with a mere two months remaining to her tenure, Hayut is finishing the job. She’s found the “secret spice.” All a judge needs to rule the way he or she wants is to place themselves above the Knesset, the laws it passes and the government that is charged with executing them. She began the process two years ago and is completing it now.
Israel is a parliamentary democracy. Legally and constitutionally, this means that the Knesset is the sovereign. The government is the executive arm of the Knesset. The Knesset can oust the government any time a majority of Knesset members lose confidence in it. The Supreme Court interprets the Knesset’s laws.
The source of the Supreme Court’s power is the corpus of Basic Laws passed by the Knesset. Since they are the source of its power, the court has no legal power to amend or abrogate these laws.
This, however, is no obstacle for Israel’s godlike Supreme Court justices, who have that “special spice.”
Esther Hayut’s war against democracy Caroline Glick
The Supreme Court president has transformed the court into a super-legislator, empowered to dictate the terms of laws to the people’s elected representatives, based on the values of the justices.
Friday morning brought the first piece of good news from Israel’s Supreme Court in years. Yediot Ahronot’s top headline declared that Supreme Court President Esther Hayut intends to resign if the Knesset passes Justice Minister Yariv Levin’s judicial reform package.
Hayut’s stewardship of the court over the past six years has been disgraceful and destructive to both the court and the State of Israel. The Hayut court dropped even the pretense of judiciousness. Hayut cast the court on a course of ideological radicalism and politicization that has no parallel anywhere in the world.
Hayut’s radicalism was well known in the legal community. She wasn’t then-justice minister Ayelet Shaked’s first choice for the court’s top slot. But Shaked had no say in the matter. Israel’s current judicial selection process protects justices from accountability to the public and its elected representatives. [Emphasis added] Supreme Court justices have a veto over nominees to the court, so everyone who gets the nod from the Judicial Selection Committee, including ostensibly conservative jurists, must embrace the organizational culture and values of the sitting justices.
