Five former presidents of Israel's Supreme Court—Aharon Barak, Dorit Beinisch, Asher Grunis, Esther Hayut, and Uzi Fogelman—issued a joint statement Monday evening condemning the government's refusal to comply with a High Court ruling, calling it 'the last nail in democracy's coffin,' according to N12 journalist Guy Peleg.
Five former Supreme Court presidents broke their silence Monday evening in an extraordinary joint statement condemning the government's decision not to comply with a High Court ruling on the Second Authority for Television and Radio. In a statement first reported by N12 journalist Guy Peleg, Aharon Barak, Dorit Beinisch, Asher Grunis, Esther Hayut, and Uzi Fogelman warned that defying the court amounts to 'the last nail in the coffin of democracy.'
The statement follows days of escalating political crisis after the government announced it would not abide by the court's ruling, drawing sharp rebukes from opposition leaders, the President, and former Prime Minister Ehud Barak, as The Zioneer previously reported. The five former chief justices, spanning decades of Israeli jurisprudence, represent an unusually broad front of legal authority united against the executive's move.
The precise content of the statement—beyond the quoted warning—has not yet been published in full. The government has not formally responded to the former presidents' appeal.
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