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Opinion | The Judges' Choice Show Israel today

2022-02-04T07:01:59.435Z


The selection committee for the selection of the ombudsman was a presentation at the community center level.


If you blinked in the second half of 2020, you may have missed the period of Avi Nissenkorn's tenure as Minister of Justice during the period of the Likud-Blue and White government.

Nissenkorn demonstrated what democracy is, and how a judicial system is run properly, without emerging from a troubled ombudsman and talking about "legal impediment."

Nissenkorn refused to reach an understanding with the Likud's representatives on the Judicial Appointments Committee - Transport Minister Miri Regev and MK Osnat Mark, nor with MK Zvi Hauser from Derech Eretz.

The three retired in protest and Nissenkorn opened fire: for five hours he appointed 61 judges without the involvement of public representatives.

He also trampled the poor Hauser, who thought Nissenkorn would flow with him on three candidates.

And what came out?

No stream.

The boycott of Regev, Mark and Hauser was intended to prevent the appointment of judges to a committee with less than seven members.

But as part of the miracle that the right camp is allowed to do whatever it pleases, the Knesset Spokeswoman ruled that everything was fine.

A decision that would have been easy to welcome if the High Court had not intervened in the work of the Knesset only a few months earlier, when it forced Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein to convene the plenum and elect a new Speaker.

The savage manner in which dozens of judges were appointed in an expedited procedure and in one-sided status, by an opportunist appointed to a senior position and then proceeded with his affairs - was obvious to all, and suspiciously similar to an event warned by democracy defenders, namely: "majority tyranny" The Bar Association and the Minister of Justice for a moment, who refuse to reach an understanding with the public representatives in the Judicial Appointments Committee, and these are not even the representatives of the opposition - but Nissenkorn's partners in the coalition.

Spokesman Avichai Mandelblit // Photo: Oren Ben Hakon, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon

The appointment frenzy passed like foam on the water, except for a few arrows of mockery at Regev and Mark.

"We are sorry that there were Knesset members who chose not to exercise their influence and absence and are now resentful of its decisions," the Blue and White faction scoffed, and Nissenkorn joked: "If those people felt genuine concern for the Israeli public, "To the Ministerial Committee for Functional Legislation and perhaps even to the state budget, have mercy on us."

Interestingly, these are always the defects from the Likud who do not know how to appoint senior civil servants.

And one of many proofs: but the Netanyahu-Gantz government disintegrated, and the new Minister of Justice, Amir Ohana, was unable to appoint even a temporary replacement for the State Attorney due to legal impediments that fell on his head.

For three years, Etty Kreif was a judge in the Netanya Magistrate's Court, and no one cared how she came to the bench.

She was considered a good judge, or at least not a bad one.

Judges make headlines when they exchange messages of coordination with the prosecution (Osnat Poznanski), or release dangerous criminals into the streets - if they infiltrate (Raja Marzouk).

No one asks how they got to the jury, though they apparently passed the illegal selection committee of retired judges called the "Committee of Two."

Kreif had an intimate relationship with Efi Naveh even before he was elected chairman of the Bar Association. ) And the contents came into the hands of State Attorney Shai Nitzan, who prepared the break-in. And was punished for offenses committed against her.

Here I was supposed to contribute my opinion on Kreif, and I do not lack opinions.

But they all rely on facts I was not supposed to know, that Nitzan was not supposed to know, that the media was not supposed to know.

In the Kreif and Naveh case, the justice system violated the law with the same elegant lightness with which Nissenkorn appointed dozens of judges in half a working day.

Kreif disrupted an investigation - they argued against her, as she deleted messages from friends she did not want to reveal to the authorities.

She paid for disrupting an investigation that was not supposed to take place in the first place.

I will leave for a moment to Krief and focus on the things I learned without the intervention of a burglar: The search committee for the selection of the ombudsman was a presentation at the community center level.

Gali in Rabbi Miara was elected from the beginning by another powerful justice minister, Gideon Saar.

The other candidates were raised for a misrepresentation of proper administration that did not convince anyone.

Also in this farce participated - again - the poor deer Hauser, who voted as who froze a demon against Raz Nazri, and refused to justify his vote.

Even the chairman of the committee, retired Supreme Court President Asher Grunis, did not bother to justify their election. Got where they came from because of their objective professional skills and not because they fit into the right club of substantive democracy.

If Kreif bothers you, get Edna Arbel, State Attorney and Supreme Court Justice.

Arbel invented a master's degree in law - which was not and was not created, received severance pay that she did not deserve, recommended filing indictments against Ministers Yaakov Ne'eman (winner), Rafael Eitan (winner) and Avigdor Kahalani (winner, although Arbel devotedly appealed the acquittals).

And of course she served on the committee of two and to this day enjoys a respectable and precious.

Certainly she was not questioned by the police about the circumstances in which she was appointed judge.

MK Moti Yogev from the Jewish House once said that "a spoonful of D-9 should be raised on the Supreme Court."

Yogev was condemned from wall to wall mainly because of his style, but no one blamed him for it: the Israeli legal system is itself the 9th, and after corrupting itself, it is taking another step and another step on democracy, the rule of law and the citizens of Israel.

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Source: israelhayom

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