Heshin was incensed by Friedman's apparent plans to make changes and somehow restrain the Supreme Court's activist approach to judicial rulings. Speaking on IBA Radio, Heshin threatened to “chop off the hands” that tried to touch "my home," the Supreme Court. He also wrote Friedman a letter to this effect.
Lawyers Ilan Tzi’on, Adi Baruch and Naftali Gur-Aryeh filed a complaint with the police, charging Heshin with using threats and spreading libel against the new minister.
"This was a very violent and grave remark," Atty. Gur-Aryeh said. "These are things you read and your eyes refuse to believe that they were said by a retired Supreme Court justice. Daniel Friedman's appointment is a very appropriate one."
Some reports say Friedman plans to appoint retired judge Boaz Okon to the post of Director-General of the Justice Ministry. Okon is also considered an implacable rival of Supreme Court President Dorit Beinish, who demanded that he be removed from his post as Courts Administrator when she took office.
Haaretz journalist Ari Shavit published an opinion piece Thursday in which he said it was obvious that “the two camps fighting each other over the rule of law have lost their marbles and are now using brute force with all possible means, both legitimate and illegitimate.” Shavit said it was necessary to tell both sides to desist and to "declare a ceasefire."
Maariv’s editor in chief, Amnon Dankner, published an editorial in which he wrote that the “hysterical” reactions to Friedman’s appointment gave the impression that “someone imagined a man with an explosive belt around his waist had just entered the Israeli legal system’s inner sanctum.” There are many defects in the legal system that need to be fixed, wrote Dankner, and “harmony between the Justice Minister and the courts systems is not a recipe for repairing them, but rather for preserving the current not-good situation. It's not the end of the world if the system undergoes some changes."
Lawyers Ilan Tzi’on, Adi Baruch and Naftali Gur-Aryeh filed a complaint with the police, charging Heshin with using threats and spreading libel against the new minister.
"This was a very violent and grave remark," Atty. Gur-Aryeh said. "These are things you read and your eyes refuse to believe that they were said by a retired Supreme Court justice. Daniel Friedman's appointment is a very appropriate one."
Some reports say Friedman plans to appoint retired judge Boaz Okon to the post of Director-General of the Justice Ministry. Okon is also considered an implacable rival of Supreme Court President Dorit Beinish, who demanded that he be removed from his post as Courts Administrator when she took office.
Haaretz journalist Ari Shavit published an opinion piece Thursday in which he said it was obvious that “the two camps fighting each other over the rule of law have lost their marbles and are now using brute force with all possible means, both legitimate and illegitimate.” Shavit said it was necessary to tell both sides to desist and to "declare a ceasefire."
Maariv’s editor in chief, Amnon Dankner, published an editorial in which he wrote that the “hysterical” reactions to Friedman’s appointment gave the impression that “someone imagined a man with an explosive belt around his waist had just entered the Israeli legal system’s inner sanctum.” There are many defects in the legal system that need to be fixed, wrote Dankner, and “harmony between the Justice Minister and the courts systems is not a recipe for repairing them, but rather for preserving the current not-good situation. It's not the end of the world if the system undergoes some changes."