Deputy Supreme Court chief sets panel to hear petitions demanding Oct. 7 state probe |
Deputy Supreme Court President Noam Sohlberg on Wednesday announced the panel of justices that will hear petitions to order the government to establish a state commission of inquiry into the October 7, 2023, Hamas invasion and atrocities.
The panel consists of Sohlberg himself, along with Justices David Mintz, Yael Wilner, Ofer Grosskopf, Alex Stein, Chaled Kabub and Yechiel Kasher, who will act in the capacity of the High Court of Justice.
Sohlberg said the composition of the panel was in part determined by the fact that some Supreme Court justices were legally blocked from hearing the petitions for various reasons.
Sohlberg, Mintz, Wilner, Stein, and, to some degree, Kasher, are all considered conservatives to varying degrees, while Kabub and Grosskopf are more liberal.
A date is yet to be set for the hearing.
Supreme Court President Isaac Amit said Tuesday that he was giving Sohlberg the authority to hear petitions on the matter because the chief justice........