Just before the impending election of the four new judges to the Supreme Court, the impending deal of Justice Minister Gideon Saar and Supreme Court President Esther Hayut becomes clear.
Brief background: The judges who are expected to be elected from the activist bloc are Khaled Kaboub, who is expected to be the first Muslim judge to serve on the Supreme Court, and Ruth Ronen, who is considered close to the New Israel Fund (her partner had a role in it; An excellent judge. Adv. Yechiel Kasher, a representative of the Bar Association, and Gila Kanfei-Steinitz, the wife of Yuval Steinitz, are expected to be appointed from the conservative side.
Representatives of the Bar Association, Supreme Court justices and the Minister of Justice are expected to support the appointments. MK Simcha Rotman will oppose.
It is not clear how Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked will behave: during her time as Minister of Justice, she vetoed Ronen's candidacy.
And what's the deal?
Because right-wing representatives were unable to reach an agreement with the Supreme Court justices, Saar Dil sought a deal that would allow agreements to be reached.
Although he managed to disqualify the candidacy of Yigal Marzel, who is also considered a red sheet for the right, in return other candidates who wanted to bring in the conservative right were rejected.
On the other hand, Ruth Ronen was actually elected, and according to a source involved in the details, this is a "joker" of the activists - compared to two "fur" candidates from the right who will not know "to give a serious fight".
"It is common to think that when one side removes candidates who are red flags, the other side does the same. Here it did not happen, so the right came out loser from the move," he said.
In the end, the Minister of Justice is a member of the Supreme Court, thus allowing the necessary majority - seven out of the nine members of the committee, even if Interior Minister Shaked decides to oppose the move.
Advocate Amichai Weinberger, an expert in public law, said: "It should be remembered that three judges who were considered relatively activists retired from the judiciary, and now in their place are offered two of their candidates probably positions acceptable to the conservative camp and two of their candidates positions acceptable to the activist camp.
The work of balance is complicated and sensitive, and it is certainly possible to side with the position that in order to maintain the public's trust in the judicial system, it is important to allow the best possible reflection of all sectors. "
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