Retired Supreme Court President Miriam Naor passed away today (Monday) at the age of 74 at her home in Jerusalem.
Naor served as chair of the Meron Disaster Research Committee, which convened only yesterday.
The retired president of the Supreme Court, the late Justice Miriam Naor, was born on the eve of the establishment of the state on October 26, 1947. Naor was a girl from Jerusalem and completed her high school education at the Rehavia Hebrew Gymnasium.
After her release from the army, she turned to law and in 1971 graduated with honors from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
She then specialized in law with Supreme Court Justice Moshe Landau.
Miriam Naor, Photo: Yonatan Zindel / Flash 90
After the internship, Naor began working for the State Attorney's Office in the High Court Department and interned with the director of the department, the future judge Mishael Cheshin.
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In 1980, she was appointed a judge of the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court.
In 1989 she was appointed a judge in the District Court.
Naor was a member of the panel of judges that convicted Aryeh Deri of crimes.
In the 1990s, she discussed the "banking law" in which she convicted banks and central bankers in the country who were responsible for the famous affair of "regulating bank shares" until 1983, an affair that caused a significant crisis in the Israeli economy in those years.
At the same time, Pain served as the Antitrust Tribunal, and starting in 2000 served as Vice President of the Administrative Court.
From 2001 she served as a practicing judge in the Supreme Court, until her permanent appointment on June 16, 2003. In April 2012, the Judicial Selection Committee elected her as Vice President of the Court, an appointment that took effect upon the retirement of former Deputy Justice Eliezer Rivlin.
In accordance with the practice of appointing the President of the Supreme Court, Naor replaced Asher Grunis as President of the Supreme Court in January 2015.
The President is enlightened at the farewell ceremony, 2017,
As part of her role as President of the Supreme Court, in 2017 she refused to allow Supreme Court justices to participate in the state ceremony for the renewal of the settlement in Gush Etzion, contrary to the state rules that had prevailed until then.
In November 2016, a letter was published written by Naor, in light of the publications about Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked's intention to repeal the amendment to the law that stipulates that the election of a judge to the Supreme Court requires a majority of 7 out of 9 on the Judicial Appointments Committee. In the committee.
Naor called the proposal "putting a gun on the table."
In November 2016 Naor also previously acted in a controversial manner In November 2016 a letter was written to the Minister of Justice, Ayelet Shaked, against her intention to repeal the amendment to the law which stipulates that the election of a judge to the Supreme Court requires a majority of 7 out of 9 The veto of the judges, they have 3 representatives on the committee.
Naor called the proposal "putting a gun on the table" when it interfered with the activities of the legislature.
Naor resigned from the judiciary and the presidency on October 26, 2017, and Judge Esther Hayut was appointed in her place.
June 2021 Appointed by Supreme Court President Esther Hayut to head the Naor Committee - a state commission of inquiry into the Meron disaster.
Naor was known for the activist line that holds the court involved in government decisions and the legislature.
During her tenure as president of the Supreme Court, she had quite a few confrontations with Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, who demanded a more conservative line from the court.
Shaked and Naor, Photo: Gideon Markowitz
Naor has previously participated in a public debate held in the Knesset's Constitution, Law and Justice Committee on the method of electing the President of the Supreme Court.
During the hearing, she defended the seniority system and prevented attempts to change the majority necessary for the election of Supreme Court justices to the Judicial Selection Committee.
One of the issues that Naor promoted was a move to improve the documentation of the hearings that take place in the courts, the main thing being beyond recording instead of manually typing the course of the hearing in the courtroom.
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