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Jul. 8, 2021 11:35 PM
In September 2016, the Judicial Appointments Committee met in what was a particularly volatile session. Things started off pleasantly: Ayelet Shaked, the justice minister at the time and the committee’s chairwoman, read out a poem by President Shimon Peres, who had just died. Several appointments that had been agreed on beforehand were quickly approved. At this point, however, the politicians serving on the committee – which is composed of the justice minister and another cabinet minister, MKs, members of the bar association and Supreme Court justices – raised a demand to meet with judges who are candidates for promotion. “The lawyers [on the committee] meet with the judges, and it’s not fair for the MKs not to meet with them,” Shaked said.
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A psychological investigation on Sunday deemed Raz fit to stand on trial.
Attorney Moshe Alon,who is representing Raz in court, said after Sunday s hearing that he pleaded self-defense: He was questioned twice: one the day of the incident, when he was in a mentally unfit condition and not grounded in reality; and during his second interrogation, he made a claim that should be examined by the unit investigating police misconduct.
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When asked about the nature of the second claim, Alon replied: I cannot elaborate on what he claimed . he is sorry, in every conversation he regrets the incident and its dire consequences.
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Feb. 10, 2021
Haim Shapow, 64, from Rishon Letzion, has a hobby he likes – ordering products online from Ali Express. “Likes” might be an understatement: He’s ordered hundreds of packages from Ali Express. “I’m like a little kid. I wait for the package to arrive and I open it right away in the car. I can’t help it,” he says.
But to Shapow’s surprise, he discovered over the past year that some people think that his hobby is a danger to the public. His fondness for opening packages sent him on a Kafkaesque journey through Israeli law enforcement, which pronounced him a suspect, indicted him, tried him, and a year later acquitted him