The decision of Gideon Saar, the Minister of Justice, to open the list of candidates for the Supreme Court, indicates the upheavals within the Judicial Selection Committee.
There is disagreement on at least two of the four.
A judge or two who were considered locked in, are apparently off the list in the current situation;
In addition, the opening puts the election process under time pressure, which could affect the election of President Esther Hayut.
The committee got underway when the director of the courts, Judge Yigal Marzel, seemed like a sure candidate for animals.
But since he is considered Aharon Barak's figure, it seems that MK Simcha Rotman's entry into the committee sandaled Saar and Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked. The seniority system, it seems he would have become president of the Supreme Court.
It is currently claimed that Hayut is going all the way with Judge Ruth Ronen.
This is an appointment for about ten years, she tends to the left, and as usual - a sworn activist.
Khaled Kaboub, the candidate for the standard of the Arab judge, is considered a brigadier general;
Must pass.
A constraint that the committee must work with.
Supreme Court.
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The third constraint is that of the candidacy of the excellent judge Gila Kanfei-Steinitz, which the Minister of Justice insists on.
There is no doubt in the committee that she is suitable for the class, but in terms of the conservative section in the committee she is not considered a conservative or someone from the left, but someone from the middle.
According to experts on the subject of judges in the country, those who start from the starting point like her gradually move to the position of activists.
There seems to be only one slot left for a conservative judge, and there is currently no agreed candidate for such an appointment.
There is no name of a conservative judge that the president agrees with.
It turns out that in favor of the fourth candidate, Saar might need the voice of MK Efrat Reitan. Maybe someone from the lawyers' section. The names of Hagai Vinitsky, Ram Winograd and David Hahn are mentioned. Because of differences of opinion.
The way to get out of the mess of choice is to release the locks.
An Arab judge should be elected, but a much better candidate than Kabov can be found.
For various reasons, carrying animals does not give him full backing.
In a state of time pressure, an animal may make concessions even in squares that appear to be killed and passable for it.
The situation where even one conservative judge is in question places an even bigger question mark on the political moves of Saar and Shaked.
You may ask: Do you attack MK David Amsalem and MK Benjamin Netanyahu when you are each standing on six buckets - but after all the acrobatics, the achievement is the composition of four liberal judges mailed directly to the Supreme Court? Saar and Shaked insisted on the trial and Membership in the Judicial Selection Committee Together with Rotman, the minimum achievement should have been two or two.
In the new phase of adding names, the Minister of Justice, the President of the Supreme Court and a group of three members of the committee can raise the new names.
This is a catastrophe.
Therefore, in terms of the revolution in appointments in the judiciary, which could have been promoted in a natural right-wing government, the discretion of Saar and Shaked is losing its validity before our eyes.
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