In soccer terminology, Israel received a yellow card but was spared, for now at least, a red card, having been unable to get the ICJ to throw out South Africa's case against it.
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Aharon Barak, a retired Israeli Supreme Court president, fought the government’s judicial overhaul plan. But it chose him for the panel hearing a case against it in a United Nations court.