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Federman vs. Barak
by E. Rauchberger

The High Court has rejected a petition to prohibit the Chief Justice of the High Court, Aharon Barak, from appointing his friend Boaz Okone to the position of regional judge. The petition was filed by Noam Federman, an extreme Right activist.

Federman claimed that Barak has personal reasons for favoring Boaz Okone, since Okone was the legal editor of a biography of Barak by Levitsky and received no fee for his services. Federman notes that such an appointment is improper, particularly because the introduction to the biography explicitly states that Okone donated his time for many months to edit the book.

High Court Justices Theodore Orr, Eliyahu Matza and Eliezer Rivlin determined that the fact that Barak knows Okone on a professional basis is not sufficient cause to disqualify him from recommending Okone's appointment as judge. Therefore, they continue, there is no reason why Barak shouldn't officiate as a member of the Committee for the Appointment of Judges which will deliberate on the Okone appointment.

Federman said that he is not surprised by the decision, and that the High Court is once again trying to avoid deliberating on issues in an in-depth manner. "Its ruling on this issue only serves to demonstrate the irrefutable status of Justice Barak among his associates in the High Court, and that whoever dares to speak against him is immediately put in his place."

 

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