The Israeli Supreme Court — whose tentacles extend to every government agency and Knesset committee, often impeding legislation that doesn’t adhere to its leftist worldview - has met its match with the Kohelet Policy Forum, a right-wing think tank that’s managed to take the court’s skewed judicial activism down a notch
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s a boy, Meir Rubin dreamed of becoming an architect. But he never fancied that an act of destruction would propel him to build his most enduring structure.
In August 2005, Meir was serving in the IDF’s elite Givati Brigade, carrying out an infantry operation in Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip. In nearby Neve Dekalim, another IDF operation was underway — the Gaza disengagement that uprooted some 8,000 Jews, including Meir’s parents, from Gush Katif’s 17 thriving Jewish settlements.
“A few hundred meters from where I was fighting, tractors were destroying my childhood home,” Rubin recalls. “That broke something inside me. I realized that this was not a time to build quietly for myself. Israel had a leadership crisis, and the nation could not rely on the government.”
After his IDF service, Rubin plowed into the books, studying economics and law at Hebrew University while interning for Knesset member Zeev Elkin of Likud.
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