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.
By CAROLINE GLICK
Israeli Supreme Court president Esther Hayut during a court hearing on petitions against a law to get around Prime Minister Netanyahu’s incapacitation, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, on Aug. 3, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
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.
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