Aviva Siegel, who was released in November 2023, told the UN anti-torture committee that the Hamas captors sexually abused the girls she was held with. Keith Siegel said he was 'denied the most basic of human rights. More than once, young terrorists forced me to strip in front of them and shaved my body'

The justices should have backed Gali Baharav-Miara in the fight to preserve the rule of law, but it seems that Netanyahu and his allies have also succeeded in intimidating the court. Their call for a compromise is another slap in the attorney general's face

Five captives released last January are identified in English as 'Thai hostage,' while the Israeli hostages are all named. The press office blames 'tight timetable' for omission, but names were easily available from announcements made at the time by the Prime Minister's Office and Thai Embassy in Israel

According to Defense Minister Israel Katz, Army Radio was established 'to serve as a voice and an ear for IDF soldiers and their families, and not as a platform for voicing opinions, many of which attack the IDF and its soldiers'

The three-judge panel showed logic and reason in their call for a compromise, but their ruling may yet bring about Justice Minister Yariv Levin's ultimate goal: a constitutional crisis in which the government will, finally, refuse to obey a High Court ruling