Overview

• In a 2–1 decision, Justices Daphne Barak-Erez and Ofer Grosskopf found the state failed to meet legal subsistence standards, with Justice David Mintz dissenting.
• The court directed the Prison Service to set compliant menus, conduct periodic medical and nutritional monitoring, verify distribution so each prisoner gets allotted food, and provide additional rations when needed.
• ACRI and Gisha brought the petition after wartime policy changes cut canteen access, presenting testimony of widespread weight loss and malnutrition.
• The majority held that food must not be used as punishment, emphasizing that legal obligations toward prisoners do not lapse during war.
• National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir condemned the decision and vowed to maintain only the bare minimum conditions, highlighting a sharp political backlash to the court’s rare wartime rebuke.