That is the charge being leveled against the mayor of Kiryat Malachi, who engaged in clearly consensual sex with one of his female employees. The relationship lasted for a long time, and the woman often drove to the mayor’s apartment by herself. The only way to describe their relationship other than love is prostitution, since the woman received benefits at work in exchange for sex.

Neeman’s measure would seem strange in any civilized state: if the Court rules a law unconstitutional, it is unconstitutional regardless of the number of people or MKs who support it. But the story is different in Israel, where as everyone knows, the Supreme Court annuls laws based on its vague definitions of human dignity and the like, rather than the actual wording of basic laws, which are the Israeli equivalent of a constitution.

Leftist MKs, who depend on the court to prevent conservative legislation from coming into being, oppose the new bill.

So he produced a videotape showing Katsav attending a public meeting many years ago, just at the time Aleph claimed he was busy raping her.

So far, the Attorney General opposes a re-trial based on this new evidence.

No longer satisfied with inventing rights for humans, the court has blocked exports of macaque monkeys to the United States for medical experiments. Now, the US has strong animal protection laws, and there is no doubt that the monkeys would be used properly, though of course cruelly. If nothing else, the high cost of macaques guarantees that they won’t be killed for food or in senseless experiments.

The only question remaining is, whom do medical researchers have to experiment on?

The only conceivable reason for an Arab judge to vote against the amnesty law is that he views the settlers from a purely Arab perspective, and so supports the most extreme punishments for them, including criminal charges for merely voicing opposition to disengagement.

The court merely convicted them of “death by negligence,” despite the fact that they were very careful and deliberate about murdering their victim. The maximum sentence for “death by negligence” is three years, and they can realistically be expected to serve two years or less.

The journalist was acquitted because she had reasonable evidence to support her accusations. To support that, the court pointed out that the officer was was under indictment at the time on similar charges. But that’s a chicken-and-egg question! He was indicted specifically because of media hysteria, and later acquitted.

Now leftist journalists have learned that they are safe from prosecution for libel as long as they can push law enforcement to investigate their allegations. And so they will become ever more aggressive in pressing their false accusations against soldiers.

This is the bane of the US medical system, where doctors test for everything out of fear of negligence claims. In reality, medical work always involves risk, and running to avoid marginal hazards greatly increase the costs and inconvenience for the vast majority of the population.

The Clalit case will push hospitals to conduct unreasonably extensive testing and drive up medical costs for all Israelis.

There is no doubt that he was threatened, beaten, and sodomized with a baton—not for the sheer fun of it, but in order to extract information about Ron Arad, who had been captured by Dirani’s colleagues. Logically, if we are prepared to release a thousand Arabs to bring back one Jew, and a very bad Jew at that, then that is all the more reason we should be allowed to torture an Arab to bring back another Jew.

Now a member of Unit 504 has filed a countersuit against the government, claiming that he was fired because of Dirani’s allegations even though he was not the one who tortured the terrorist. It is one thing that the government submitted to the court’s dictates, but a totally different thing that good interrogators are actually being punished for doing their jobs rescuing a Jew.

The court said correctly that the right to marital life does not have to be realized within the borders of Israel, and the Palestinians can live just as happily in their own state ten miles away.

The Chief Judge was among the dissenters.