Top jurists to Justice Minister: Straighten up or resign

Instead of embracing, no it is too heavy, of welcoming the advocation for reforms pushed forward by Friedman, there is a shout in the ranks and files of that class that benefited for the current legal system. 'Cause Friedman is not only vying the changes of apointing High Court Judges and below, but also a needy reforms for punishing the recidivists, those that revisit prisons almost immediately after their release. Those 15 highly considered academes, have the right to raise their objections, but how many other hundreds and hundreds of silent majority (made silent by Haaretz and other media the existence of the few: that is how it works, the closer you are to the media, the wider coverage you benefit from it), and the people in their instinctive intelligence, without knowing the bric-a-brac of those highly fullutin academes, they see on the ground that something in the Leagal System is wanting, and that is good by me.

"...alter his ways - or resign," Let's try to understand their problem. These guys won't stand a chance getting on the High Bench as long as DF is Justice Minister.

Supporters of the petition rejected claims that the two people behind the petition are Porat and Benvenisti, who were candidates for appointment to the Supreme Court during the tenures of Tzipi Livni and Haim Ramon at the Justice Ministry, and are no longer candidates.

Mike congratulations! It is sad but you are so right. Our system has fallen in to currupt politicians and permits them to manipulate the laws to their conovinience. one of the few sistems in the world that permits MK's to be cabinet ministers and even worse, to be appointed by their own parties with no esperience. Sorry Mike, but the cronies are managing the country.

Severe and irreparable damage to the rule of law has already been caused by the pig-headed decisions of the left wing apparatchiks masquerading as justices. Instead of equal justice for all, they offer better justice for those with the right connections and the right politics, and the back of the hand to everyone else. But there's an easy way to replace all of the justices. Simply let the Knesset pass a law that forbids any idolater from serving as a judge in Israel, where an idolater is defined as anyone who publicly elevates a personal belief system to a position higher than God.

just over a year ago the British High Court said that the Israeli Supreme Court was the best in the world and had the hardest decisions to make. I am right wing and don't like many of the courts decisions but I certainly don't want our corrupt politicians to get more power. - Mike

The people stand with Friedman. Finally, here is someone willing to stand up to the post-Zionist oligarchy that has taken control of the Justice system. In no other democratic country do these Supreme Court justices appoint their own successors as is the case in Israel. I am sure that if open investigations were conducted of the Supreme Court as has been done with Presidents, Knesset Members and Cabinet ministers, we would find a den of corruption just as bad as any in the country. One Supreme Court justice who defined what "morality" is for the rest of us had a child out of wedlock whom he refused to recognize, support or even meet until she was 20 years old. This hypocrisy must end, and at least Friedman (who is a Leftist Mr Shulman-otherwise he would not have gotten the job) is trying to make some reforms.

"To bad that he is a rightist" It is not a question of right and left. Shamgar, head of the supreme court for many years, is a rightist, an illustrious judge ever to be remembered. His political leaning did not interfere with his sense of justice.

Friedman is sowing dissent in all his moves, like a bull in a china shop. Something is very wrong here. Now overseas lawyers are now trying to interfere on his behalf in his defense. Anyway, who said that American justice should be a light unto the nations?! They have a lot to clean up there. Terrible things are done in the USA in the name of justice, not only what goes on on death-row......

The Chief Justice's and her academic supporters' rhetoric lack stringent arguments. They only threaten. In the Western Academia, this would disqualify them from any serious discourse and consideration. They merely deplore their prospective loss of unchecked power and privilege. They are sore losers. Friedmann is right and will succeed. To bad that he is a rightist.

Professors are not Jurists. There complaints should be addressed to the Knesset and not the Minister of Justice.

Friedman is one of the only assets in the government at this time. They are all fighting against him because he is actually doing his job as the justice minister. He will be remembered in history as a person who set the courts straight and made them more balanced. In the U.S.A the President nominates different Justices for the supreme court so we have a mix some more liberal justices some more conservative justices nominated by different Presidents over the years. However in Israel the justices on the supreme court are all left leaning types who also seem to be antireligious. Lets get judges who are more representitive of the populations in Israel. We want some right wing, central, sefardic judges, not just secular Ashkenazi left wing types. Very few people in Israel are backing the high court because they know there is a problem there. The whole world is aware that they have too much power. Friedman will ultimately prevail.He is too clean they can't find anything on him.