Meir Shamgar

High Court cancels hearing on firing of A-G Baharav-Miara after gov’t fails to send representatives

Supreme Court President Isaac Amit announced from the bench that the justices would issue their ruling based solely on the written material.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
ATTORNEY-GENERAL Gali Baharav-Miara. Last week, the A-G and her office issued a sharply critical advisory opinion on a government decision to change the traditional firing process of the attorney-general, one of many back-and-forths Baharav-Miara has had with the government.
Committee members at the 2013 inaugural meeting of the Genesis Prize Committee

The late justice Meir Shamgar: Integrity, patriotism, Jewish values

Genesis Prize Committee honors life of Israeli justice.

|ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
Blue and White leader Benny Gantz attends the funeral of supreme court president Meir Shamgar

When Bibi praised the man who indirectly called for him to resign - analysis

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised former Supreme Court chief justice Meir Shamgar at his funeral and extolled defending judicial independence.

|ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
Blue and White leader Benny Gantz attends the funeral of supreme court president Meir Shamgar

Meir Shamgar, modern father of legal system, laid to rest

He served as chief justice, attorney-general and chief IDF lawyer

|ByYONAH JEREMY BOB