The minutes of the meeting for the selection of judges reveal harsh statements by the members of the selection committee of judges about the conduct that was customary in it, which preceded the decision to change the methods of operation of the Judges' Evaluation Center.
Although the State Attorney's Office eventually decided to close the case, the echoes of the affair did not subside.
It was also decided that the concluding opinion would include a broader detail of the reasons for the recommendation and would be communicated to the candidates.
Minister of Justice Saar.
There should be more detail, Photo: Coco
As mentioned, Kreif received a relatively low score from the assessment center, but because of a detail that includes only ten words, the committee approved her candidacy, with the support of then-Bar Association chairman Efi Naveh, who was also a committee member.
Judge Yitzhak Amit said: "We need to strike at sin ... we need to thicken the text."
He went on to explain that in some assessment institutes psychologists sit, "and this is a joke."
The protocol showed that the salaries of psychologists in assessment centers range from NIS 13,000 to NIS 17,000 per month.
President Hayut: "Vegetarian reasoning" President Esther Hayut accepted the poor detail on candidates, noting: "I think that is where this vegetarian reasoning was born, so that if a person does not pass they do not want to hurt him, but in the end they are left with question marks."
Supreme Court President Esther Hayut, Photo: Noam Rivkin Fenton
The committee members later discussed ways to deal with candidates who did not pass the assessment center and nevertheless entered the judiciary, and whether the assessment should be numerical or verbal.
President Hayut suggested that in these cases it should be "entered into the database despite the grade, with reasons why despite the assessment of the assessment center it is worth entering ... there may be a difference between those who received 6 in the course and those who received 4 in the course".
Hayut later revealed the fetus score at the assessment center: "70 percent is the economic center that was in December 2020, and it was unusual because there were candidates for economic court there. The average, I checked, is 40-35 percent."
"The tools need to be thickened," Minister Shaked said.
"An external assessment center is a regret," Shaked said.
Advocate Ilana Sker said: "The chapters, the tools of the committee, the concluding assessment should be thickened."
Justice Minister Gideon Saar concluded: "The general feeling at least is that there is no sufficient detail in the literal aspect, as opposed to the numerical scores. There should be more detail. The candidate does not get enough ... There are three things: a candidate's file, a course, a subcommittee. All of these parameters, but I think at the core of every step reduces the chance of making a mistake. "
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