The other evening a few of my lawyer friends were over talking about the vote todayfor leadership  at the Israel Bar Association.  

I’d never heard anything about the head of this association before, or the elections, but this year 2 winners of this election will be brought into the Judicial Selection Committee – the committee that selects the judges of the high court.  

Now one of the candidates is Effi Naveh, a guy who managed to evade charges with a sexual orientation twice in the past 4 years.  Once he slipped his girlfriend through passport control when he took her for a vacation abroad – in order to avoid problems in his divorce trial.  The second accusation is worse, that he was arrested in 2019 on suspicion of advancing the judicial appointments of women in return for sexual favors.  He managed to get out of that one too because the information was obtained illegally, but just the suspicion of such a horrendous practice should disqualify him.  But he’s the guy the present government is backing.  So sleeping your way to the top is coming back into style and the religious parties seem to be giving this practice a rubber stamp…