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Jeremy Sharon

Jeremy Sharon

Jeremy Sharon is The Times of Israel’s legal affairs and settlements reporter
Activists protest against the government's planned judicial overhaul, outside the ultraconservative Har Hamor Yeshiva in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Homa, July 5, 2023. The sign, featuring leading members of the government, states 'You are the messianics of the destruction.' (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 17, 2023, 4:42 pm
Protest groups turn up heat on ‘messianic’ settlers accused of driving overhaul
Activists demonstrate in settlements and highlight anti-Palestinian violence, making common cause with established leftist groups but risking alienating supporters on the right
By Jeremy Sharon
Israeli forces demolish a building at an illegal West Bank outpost on August 14, 2023 (Screencapture/Twitter used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 14, 2023, 8:58 am
In rare move, security forces evacuate illegal West Bank outpost
Settlers burn tires and scatter spikes on road to outpost; settlers, security sources say Smotrich gave green light for evacuation; no comment from far-right leader
By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff
President of the Supreme Court Esther Hayut (center) and Supreme Court Justices Uzi Vogelman (left) and Isaac Amit (right) seen during a court hearing on petitions against the coalition's recusal law, August 3, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 9, 2023, 10:33 pm
High Court issues procedural injunction against government’s reasonableness law
While such moves commonly indicate a shift in the burden of explanation from petitioner to respondent, court insists its decision is for ‘purposes of efficiency alone’
By Jeremy Sharon
Supreme Court Justice Noam Sohlberg attends a hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on May 8, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 9, 2023, 8:38 pm
Conservative on Supreme Court named to key panel that selects judges
Noam Sohlberg tapped as third justice to serve on Judicial Selection Committee, which Yariv Levin has refused to convene as he seeks greater control over it as part of overhaul
By Jeremy Sharon
Supreme Court President Esther Hayut and other justices during a court hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, on August 3, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 9, 2023, 12:32 pm
September showdown: Israel’s branches of government to face off in three key cases
Petitions against two coalition Basic Law amendments, and justice minister’s refusal to convene crucial panel, give retiring court chief chance to leave final far-reaching mark
By Jeremy Sharon
Left to right: Netanyahu trial Judges Moshe Bar-Am, Rebecca Friedman-Feldman and Oded Shaham. (Justice Ministry)
August 6, 2023, 9:47 pm
Netanyahu trial judges defend assertion that bribery charge will be hard to prove
Judges also reject allegations made in a public complaints process that they are intimidated by the PM’s trial due to its political and social sensitivities
By Jeremy Sharon
President of the Supreme Court Esther Hayut during a court hearing on petitions against the coalition's recusal law, August 3, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 6, 2023, 5:06 pm
High Court issues injunction, seeks answers from the state on PM recusal law
Justices ask why legislation shielding PM from recusal shouldn’t take effect at a later date, making it less tailored to Netanyahu; expanded panel of 11 judges will hear petitions
By Jeremy Sharon
President of the Supreme Court Esther Hayut at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, August 3, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 3, 2023, 6:49 pm
High Court calls PM recusal law ‘clearly personal,’ indicates it may intervene
Setting up potential showdown, justices imply they may delay application of law that stops court removing PM; Netanyahu’s lawyer: Ouster by unelected official would be unthinkable
By Jeremy Sharon
Settlement activists, one of whom is wearing a prayer shawl and tefillin, at a construction site of the illegal West Bank outpost of Homesh, May 29, 2023. (Flash90)
August 2, 2023, 11:55 pm
High Court shoots down petition to evacuate illegal Homesh outpost in West Bank
Yesh Din organization says High Court ‘normalizing apartheid rule’ in West Bank; settler leader calls for rebuilding of other settlements in northern West Bank
By Jeremy Sharon
Israel Bar Association chief Amit Becher (left) and Muhamad Naamneh, the IBA pick to serve on the Judicial Selection Committee, seen in an undated photo. (Courtesy IBA)
July 31, 2023, 10:56 pm
Israel Bar Association taps Muhamad Naamneh to serve on Judicial Selection Committee
IBA head Amit Becher ‘very proud’ of Naamneh’s reelection for key 9-member panel, but Levin is refusing to convene committee until he can legislate to change its makeup
By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff
President of the Supreme Court Esther Hayut and Supreme Court justices at the High Court in Jerusalem hear petitions against the so-called 'Tiberias law,' on July 30, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 31, 2023, 8:07 pm
Unprecedented 15-judge panel to hear petitions against coalition’s reasonableness law
The full roster of the High Court will deliberate the government’s Basic Law amendment that limits court oversight, starting on September 12
By Jeremy Sharon
Acting Tiberias mayor Boaz Yosef at a hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, in petitions against the so-called "Tiberias law," on July 30, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 31, 2023, 12:09 am
High Court rules unanimously against mayoral election law that would benefit Deri ally
Judges say changes to cooling-off period for acting mayor must take effect only after next municipal poll; note legislation seemed ‘tailor-made’ to benefit Boaz Yosef
By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff
Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara speaks during a conference in Haifa on January 12, 2023. (Shir Torem/Flash90)
July 27, 2023, 4:20 pm
Likud MK says he will withdraw controversial bill to split attorney general position
Eli Dallal says he’s pulling the legislation ‘out of sincere desire for compromise with opposition,’ though all 10 cosponsors would have to retract their names too
By Jeremy Sharon
Israelis protest outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem against the government's judicial overhaul, March 27, 2023. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)
July 26, 2023, 4:52 pm
A time for reason: Will the High Court strike down government’s reasonableness law?
Justices have developed 2 doctrines to potentially block a Basic Law. Does the new legislation limiting the courts’ use of reasonableness justify resorting to this doomsday weapon?
By Jeremy Sharon
Armed settlers conduct a search of a Palestinian home in a Beduin village in the South Hebron Hills, July 25, 2023. (Screenshot/ Yesh Din)
July 26, 2023, 11:47 am
Settlers storm into Palestinian homes to ‘conduct searches,’ at least 1 of them armed
Police deny receiving complaint; IDF says it was aiding in hunt for stolen property near West Bank’s Hebron, declines to comment on presence of civilians, one bearing assault rifle
By ToI Staff and Jeremy Sharon
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