High Court President Esther Hayutaims for a bombshell Bibi ruling
Illustration: Sivan Schwam
No one who’s mingled with Israel’s governing elite gets over the shock at seeing the resources that go into planning their overseas trips. It seems that no luxury vacation can beat a work trip at taxpayers’ expense. If even a fraction of the meticulous attention to detail that goes into choosing flights and hotels went into the actual meetings themselves, Israel’s GDP would soar after every flight.
In that respect, Israel’s High Court justices are no different from their elected counterparts, who are always ready for a publicly funded “work trip” abroad.
The point of this lead-in is to drive home the significance of High Court President Esther Hayut’s rushed return from her official visit to Germany, the last of her tenure, along with six other High Court justices.
Every detail had been painstakingly arranged, but on the High Court president’s orders, the vacation was cut short. Hayut and her six colleagues packed their bags and returned home sooner than planned. Such a junket would not have been terminated unless Hayut saw her immediate return to Israel as the only way to stop judicial reform.
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