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Panel to convene today to fill 3 Supreme Court vacancies

Izenberg, Dan

2009

Overview

The warring parties in this case are Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch and her two colleagues, Justices Ayala Procaccia and Edmond Levy, versus three right-wing politicians - Environmental Protection Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud) and MKs David Rotem (Israel Beiteinu Party) and Uri Ariel (National Union). On the eve of Friday's critical meeting, the right- wing bloc appears to be ready to accept [Uzi Fogelman] and [Yoseph Elon]. But it, too, has a condition. Both Beinisch and [Yaakov Neeman] must accept its candidate for the third court vacancy. The bloc has proposed three candidates, all of them religious. They are attorney Dov Frimer, Jerusalem District Court Judge Noam Sohlberg and Tel Aviv District Court Judge Yeshayahu Schneller. So far, Beinisch has refused to accept this deal. According to some reports, she is willing to contemplate appointing the right-wing bloc's candidate as a temporary justice for six months. But Erdan, Rotem, Ariel and [Pinhas Marinsky] will have none of that. If their man gets a temporary appointment, all three candidates should be appointed temporarily, they say.

• Publisher: The Jerusalem Post Ltd
• Subject: Elon, Yoseph / Erdan, Gilad / Fogelman, Uzi / Neeman, Yaakov / Rotem, David