Judge Hila Cohen of the Haifa District Court was caught fibulating protocols of proceedings that had never taken place in reality. An unusual procedure was eventually employed to force her off the bench, after the justice system failed to apply any sanctions against her either. Later, through mediation process, overseen by a retired Supreme Court Justice, Cohen was awarded enhanced lifetime benefits, after serving only a few years on the bench...
Accusation of "obstruction of justice with impunity" by the Tel Aviv District Court also appears in the opening lines of the 2012 final letter of self-immolated, social protest activist Moshe Silman. [xviii]
H. Intimidation of critics of the Israeli judiciary
There is no doubt that had a criminal complaint been filed with police against the Secretary of the Executive Cabinet or the Secretary of the Parliament (Knesset), and furthermore, forwarded to the State Prosecution by the office of Attorney General, such news would have appeared in the headlines of Israeli media. Yet, the fact that such complaints were filed against the Supreme Court's Chief Justice and Chief Clerk, are nowhere mentioned.
Likewise, the part of the UN UPR Report (2013), which in fact documented large-scale fraud in the electronic records of the Israeli justice system was never mentioned by Israeli media, who covered other parts of the same report.
A likely explanation of such situation is the intimidation of media and other critics by the judiciary.
Recently, former National Security Advisor Giora Island has published a newspaper column, calling for reform of the judiciary in Israel. In response, the Director of Administration of the Court, Judge Michael Spitzer issued a letter to all judges in Israel, which was largely viewed as an ad hominem attack on Mr Island. Moreover, Mr Island was called for a meeting with the Director of the Administration of the Court, following which Mr Island was silenced.
An Israeli journalist conducted a radio interviewed the father of a child, who was permanently taken out of Israel to Russia, never to see her father again, after a judge revoked through an ex parte proceeding, without the father's knowledge, the decree which prohibited both parents from taking the child out of state. The journalist was later called for a criminal investigation by police... but the judge was never disciplined.
And while media are reluctant to report on judicial corruption in Israel, Haaretz daily has recently reported that the Israeli judges have initiated efforts to block internet sites that deal with judicial corruption in Israel.
I. Socio-economic developments in Israel 1995-2013 [xix, xx, xxi]
During most of the years of the period, Israel's economy has continued to demonstrate healthy growth. Regardless, during the same period poverty and homelessness levels in Israel have soared, and housing has become unaffordable for working people. A huge gap has emerged in income and asset distribution.
Additionally, an extreme and aggressive debt collection system has been established in the Israel, where exorbitant interest rate and attorneys fees are applied to the debtors, as well as unusual penalties, including, but not limited to imprisonment, denial of the right to travel out of state, and until recently - revocation of driving licenses.
With it, the justice system has become a major oppressive and impoverishing agent.
In parallel, public corruption has become rampant, and public trust in the political system in general, and in the justice system in particular, has plummeted. A recent European survey found that only 22% of Israelis believe that judges in Israel do not take bribes...
Conclusion
The Rule of Law in the State of Israel has been thoroughly undermined over the past three decade, with the final stage representing a takeover of the State through collusion by the Supreme Court and the Shin-Bet, and implementation of fraudulent computer systems in the courts, which facilitate the falsification of court records, issuance of invalid court records, and the conduct of sham litigation. Such events coincided with unprecedented socio-economic deterioration in the State of Israel.
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