Overview
- Justice Minister Yariv Levin sent a formal letter to Courts Director Judge Tzahi Ouziel calling the planned event political and urging its cancellation.
- Levin asked for disclosure of the conference’s costs and funding sources and pressed for assurances that future court-hosted events will be balanced.
- The lineup includes former court president Esther Hayut and current President Yitzhak Amit, with external speakers Dr. Uki Maroshek and Prof. Asa Kasher identified by Levin as left-leaning.
- Levin cited past remarks by Maroshek and Kasher, including a 2020 statement about Palestinian children and comments critical of the haredi community, to argue the program lacks neutrality.
- Haaretz reports the Courts Administration rejected Levin’s characterization as it described the event as nonpolitical, while a right-wing activist separately urged cancellation; no decision on the event’s fate has been announced.