In numerous nations, such conduct is explicitly defined by law as criminality. In contrast, in Israel, the falsification and forgery of court records by judges has become a well-known phenomenon over the past decade. It has been facilitated by the implementation of new, fraudulent IT systems in the courts, which enable such conduct. Moreover, even when caught, judges have not been prosecuted, and the judiciary refuses to impose any significant punitive measures on judges for such conduct.
The Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission was incorporated into the 2013 UN Human Rights Council Professional Staff Report with a note regarding "lack of integrity in the electronic record systems of the Supreme Court, the district courts and the detainees courts in Israel". [3] The 2015 European Conference on E-Government published a report, subject to international, anonymous peer-review, titled "Fraudulent, new IT-systems of the Israeli courts -- unannounced regime change?". [4]
Over the past year, restrictions on Free Speech have become particularly notable in Israel . A series of "gag orders" ("Publication Prohibition Decrees") were issued in recent months, relative to a series of high profile corruption scandals, which involve senior figures of the Israel Police, the State Prosecution, and judges. [5]
In parallel, the courts engage in wholesale denial of access to court files related to corruption of government authorities. Access to court records is considered part of Free of Speech and Freedom of the Press as well.
Restrictions on Free Speech became particularly severe last summer, during the Gaza massacre. Various Israeli employers, including universities, issued instructions, which prohibited employees from engaging in any political speech, even if such speech was conducted outside working hours and off work premises. In one extreme case, the Dean of Bar-Ilan University law school demanded an apology from a law professor, who expressed sorrow for the loss of lives, without explicitly restricting such sorrow for the loss of Jewish life... In another case, the New York Times got into a dispute with the Israeli government, when the latter tried to regulate what would be publish relative to the Gaza conflict.
Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press are probably the two areas, where Israel fails most visibly its claims of being "the only democracy in the middle-east". And judicial corruption is the key to government corruption in Israel today, albeit, a form of corruption, whose existence the justice system simply denies; and the mention of which it tries to prohibit from being published...
LINKS:
[1] 2015-06-28 Zion Keinan v Barak Cohen (35113-06-15) in the Tel-Aviv Magistrate Court -- Request to Inspect court file
https://www.scribd.com/doc/269891115/
[2] 2015-06-28Zion Keinan v Barak Cohen (35113-06-15) in the Tel-Aviv Magistrate Court -- Statement of Disqualification for a Cause against Judge Efrat Bosni //
https://www.scribd.com/doc/269891192/
[3] 12-09-04 Zernik, J., "Integrity, or Lack Thereof, of the Electronic Record Systems of the Courts of the State of Israel", Data Analytics 1:31-38 (2012)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/104900712
[4] 2015-06-18 Zernik, J., "Fraudulent New IT Systems of the Israeli Courts -- Unannounced Regime Change?" Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on e-Government, University of Portsmouth, UK, pp331-340, 2015.
https://www.scribd.com/doc/250726544/
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