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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.