Israel Bar Association

My cousin gave the world the word ‘genocide’ – don’t let anyone profit from it - opinion

Raphael Lemkin was my cousin. He was a Polish Jewish lawyer who watched the Nazis murder dozens of our relatives and sat down and invented a word for the crime he could not otherwise name - genocide.

Raphael Lemkin
Supreme Court President Isaac Amit arrives for a hearing on a petition concerning the continuation of the criminal investigation into alleged leaks in the “Sde Teiman” affair at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, May 31, 2026.

High Court presses state over judicial selection overhaul, warns of political incentives

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and incoming Mossad chief Roman Gofman ordering the strikes on Iranian officials, March 16, 2026.

Gofman ruling lays bare rules under dispute in Israel's political game - analysis

Attorney general Gali Baharav-Miara at a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset, in the Israeli parliament on September 30, 2025.

Israel in ‘race to eliminate democratic institutions’ as coalition pushes court bills, says A-G


Law firm submits Bar exam answers for early result verification

Interns can check the exam using an online form on the Lawyers website.

  Adv. Erika Solomon Vasser and Adv. Roy Bitton of Lawyers law firm

Mandelblit: ICC jumping on Russia war crimes won’t harm Israel

Mandelblit said that Israel's significant investment in probing its own alleged war crimes would protect it from outside legal cases.

 Outgoing Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit at his retirement ceremony, February 1, 2022.

New Public Defender: Israeli justice system still mistreats defendants

Canaan replaced Yoav Sapir to run the country’s public defender system in December but has not made any major public appearances to date.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Lawyers Boaz Ben Zur and Amit Hadad arrive to the District Court in Jerusalem for a court hearing as part of the trial of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on December 1, 2020.

Lawyers group opens first bar exam course

The Israel Bar Association has prepared 27 textbooks at an investment of NIS 1.3 million, for its first certification preparatory course for the bar examination.

Oodles of reading material at an old bookstore in Safed

IDF’s quiet chief legal warrior turns the page

Tomer-Yerushalmi replaced Afek Sharon as IDF'S MAG in September.

 YIFAT TOMER-YERUSHALMI – she had to deal with terrorists, suicide bombings, large numbers of murder cases at the same time, thousands of administrative detention cases and thousands of soldiers being stationed constantly in the West Bank and Gaza – both as a lawyer and then as a judge.

Lawyers: Raising the Bar for Israeli law graduates’ exams

Not only has the exam become more challenging, the method of teaching and textbooks have not been adapted to the new format of the exams.

A gavel in a court of law

Bar Association picks new member on powerful panel for picking judges

For the prime minister, how these justices vote could be the difference between jail and freedom and could also decisively impact his political career.

High Court of Justice May 3, 2020

Kahlon won't be questioned under caution

"Many appointments were made for wrong reasons, and this must be checked," the movement's head, attorney Eliad Shraga said.

Moshe Kahlon at a weekly cabinet meeting, December 23rd, 2018

Israel's Bar Association cancels appointment of lawyer who defends terrorists

The Bar Association decided on Monday to freeze the appointment of Lea Tsemel to head its Military Courts Committee, which it had approved the previous day.

Advocate, a joint Israeli, Canadian and Swiss production, will have its world premiere in the World Cinema documentary competition

Efi Nave, judge to be indicted in sex for judgeship scandal

Nave is suspected of having sexual relationships with Eti Karif and with a female lawyer whose husband is a magistrate’s court judge and was seeking promotion to become a district judge.

Efi Nave in court