Four Questions About The Opponents Of Judicial Reform

Supreme Court reform could introduce normative standards of release, which would require an evaluation of each case on the basis of recidivism—the probability that the released felon might repeat his crime.

Israeli contractors who import migrant workers

Over the past decade, the Supreme Court has turned a blind eye to Israel contractors who have imported as many as a quarter-million migrant workers to perform menial labor.

These contractors, working with the Israel Hotel Association and other employers ready to hire workers for below the minimum wage and without social benefits or medical care, hire PR professionals to tell the public that these migrant workers are innocuous asylum seekers.

Migrant workers have run rampant and ransacked neighborhoods in south Tel Aviv, yet the Supreme Court prefers to believe that they are innocent asylum seekers with nowhere else to go.

Supreme Court reform would be a nightmare for these unscrupulous contractors.

The Israeli high-tech industry illegally importing workers

Israel’s booming high-tech industry now recruits workers from abroad, ignoring local high-tech professionals who are seeking employment.

Many of these high-tech companies do not allow their imported workers a day of rest or apply for work visas on their behalf, both of which are mandated by Israeli labor law. The Supreme Court regularly turns a blind eye to these abuses.

Supreme Court reform could hold these companies to account and prevent the further importation of foreign high-tech workers.

On the seder night next week, four questions should be asked about four issues and why some of the parties involved are such strong opponents of judicial reform.