In this special episode, we speak with law professor Moshe Cohen-Eliya, former President of Israel’s College of Law and Business, to help make sense of the increasingly surreal world of Israeli jurisprudence.
Israel’s Supreme Court just issued two of its strangest decisions to date: one justifying the court’s veto power over constitutional amendments, and the second affirming the notion that the Attorney General can remove Prime Minister Netanyahu from office without due process, but cannot do so with any future prime minister.
If this all sounds more like politics than jurisprudence, that’s because it is. Professor Cohen-Eliya explains how, for Israel’s Supreme Court, the distinction between the two is quickly disappearing.
Gadi Taub is an author, historian, and op-ed columnist. He is co-host of Tablet’s Israel Update podcast.
Michael Doran is Director of the Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East and a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C.
