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2020-12-04T22:48:12.769Z


| SentenceTension ahead of the convening of the Judicial Appointments Committee • One of the points of contention: the appointment of Judge Abbas Assi to the Jerusalem District Court • Legal source: "They took an extremist person" Ayelet Shaked and members of the Judicial Appointments Committee Photography:  Dudi Vaknin - Archive The Judicial Appointments Committee is expected to convene and approve on


Tension ahead of the convening of the Judicial Appointments Committee • One of the points of contention: the appointment of Judge Abbas Assi to the Jerusalem District Court • Legal source: "They took an extremist person"

  • Ayelet Shaked and members of the Judicial Appointments Committee

    Photography: 

    Dudi Vaknin - Archive

The Judicial Appointments Committee is expected to convene and approve on Sunday a series of judges' appointments in almost all courts.

Two of them are perceived as particularly controversial.

One of them is Jerusalem Magistrate's Court Judge Abbas Assi, who is expected to be promoted to the city's District Court.

Judge Assi is considered one of the most hostile legal figures for the police, the IDF and the settlers.

"I understand their need to appoint an Arab judge, I do not think it is wrong, but they have taken the most extreme person and put him as a district judge," a legal source told Israel Today, "when minorities file lawsuits against the police or the IDF." He decides in their favor compensation in the tens and hundreds of thousands of shekels, time after time. "

For example, a resident of Khan Yunis who filed a lawsuit against the IDF in 2004, claiming that he was shot in a taxi for no reason - his lawsuit was struck out about inaction about five years later. In 2010 he filed the lawsuit again, Judge Assi decided to accept the lawsuit, while charging the state NIS 10,000 in compensation. , A minority police officer forced the plaintiff, a religious man, to hand over fingerprints on Saturday, in violation of procedures.

In another lawsuit filed in 2010 for the false arrest of a minority citizen, Judge Assi ordered the police to pay NIS 700,000 in compensation.

The district court reduced the compensation to NIS 350,000 at the end of the appeal.

"Unsubstantiated claims"

Another problematic candidate who is expected to be promoted is Adv. Hisham Shebaita, who is a candidate for the position of Justice of the Central Family Court.

Former Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked has delayed these candidates for four years in light of their past.

But now there is a front of the three representatives of the judges - Supreme Court President Esther Hayut and Supreme Court justices Uzi Vogelman and Neil Handel, two candidates for the Bar Association, Adv. Mark and MK Zvika Hauser have a white brush, so these appointments are expected to be approved. 

Judge Assi responded: "These are baseless and biased claims that rely on a single ruling from an extensive ruling I have given over the years."

Source: israelhayom

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