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Supreme Court Justice Yael Vilner Chosen for Judicial Selection Committee
The Supreme Court plenum has elected Justice Yael Vilner to serve on the Judicial Selection Committee, replacing Justice Daphna Barak-Erez, who is concluding her legally mandated three-year term on the committee.
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What happened
- 01The Supreme Court plenum elected Justice Yael Vilner to the Judicial Selection Committee, replacing Justice Daphna Barak-Erez.
- 02Justice Daphna Barak-Erez is stepping down after completing her legally mandated three-year term on the committee.
- 03Justice Vilner was selected over the more senior Justice David Mintz to fulfill a legal requirement for female representation.
- 04The Basic Law: Judiciary mandates that at least one of the three Supreme Court representatives on the committee must be a woman.
- 05The other two Supreme Court representatives on the committee are President Yitzhak Amit and Vice President Noam Sohlberg.
- 06Justice Vilner, 67, is a religious judge who has served on the Supreme Court since her appointment in 2017.
- 07The appointment is not expected to alter the voting bloc of the Supreme Court justices on the committee.
The replacement is a routine procedure, but it required passing over Justice David Mintz, who is more senior than Vilner on the Supreme Court bench. Under Israeli law, the three Supreme Court representatives on the committee are the President, the Vice President, and an additional justice, currently President Yitzhak Amit and Vice President Noam Sohlberg.
While the third seat traditionally goes to the most senior justice after them, the Basic Law: Judiciary mandates that at least one of the Supreme Court's representatives on the committee must be a woman. Because Amit and Sohlberg are men, Vilner was selected to fulfill this legal requirement for female representation.
Vilner, 67, is a religious judge appointed to the Supreme Court in 2017. Her appointment is not expected to alter the voting bloc of the Supreme Court justices on the committee, which is responsible for appointing judges to all Israeli courts.
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