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45 2008 of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists ;usr, esm esm Spring THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION 45 2008 OF JEWISH LAWYERS AND JURISTS In this issue Israel celebrates 60 years Sixty years of Israeli law Sixty years of Jewish law Human rights Srebrenica war crimes Human Rights Council In the courts Almog v. Arab Bank German WWII trials The International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists Honorary President Judge (retired) Hadassa Ben-Itto (Israel) Honorary Deputy Presidents Honorary Vice Presidents Itzhak Nener (Israel) Joseph Roubache (France) The Rt. Hon. The Lord Woolf (U.K.) Dr. Oreste Bisazza Terracini (Italy) Justice (retired) William Kaye (Australia) Members of the Executive Committee* Members of the Board of Governors President Alex Hertman (Israel) Alex Hertman (Israel) Irit Kohn (Israel) Prof. Yaffa Zilbershats (Israel) First Deputy President and Haim Klugman (Israel) Coordinator with International Bodies Avraham (Avi) D. Doron (Israel) Irit Kohn (Israel) Daniel Lack (Switzerland) Judge Marcos Arnoldo Grabivker (Argentina) Vice President and Academic Adviser Stephan R. Greenwald (USA) Prof. Yaffa Zilbershats (Israel) Aliza Ben-Artzi (Israel) Alon Kaplan (Israel) Vice President and Secretary General Avishay Sapir (Israel) Haim Klugman (Israel) Judge (retired) Blanche Kay (Israel) Brig. Gen. (retired) Dov Shefi (Israel) Vice President and Treasurer Efraim (Efi) Chalamish (USA) Avraham (Avi) D. Doron (Israel) Ethia Simha (Israel) Gilles Kaufman (France) Vice Presidents Ivan S. Levy (South Africa) Daniel Lack (Switzerland) Jeremy D.Margolis (USA) Judge Marcos Arnoldo Grabivker (Argentina) Jimena Bronfman (Chile) Stephan R. Greenwald (USA) Jonathan Lux (United Kingdom) Prof. Joseph Gross (Israel) Permanent Representatives to Michael Kobsa (Switzerland) the UN in Geneva Dr. Lipa Meir (Israel) Daniel Lack (Switzerland) Dr. Maria Canals De Cediel (Switzerland) Maurizio Ruben (Italy) Permanent Representatives to Dr. Meir Rosenne (Israel) the UN in New York Prof. Michla Pomerance (Israel) Efi Chalamish (USA) Olaf S.Ossmann (Germany) Suzanne Last Stone (USA) Representatives to Dr. Tamar Gidron (Israel) the Council of Europe in Strasbourg Justice Vera Rottenberg-Liatowitsch (Switzerland) Joseph Roubache (France) Prof. Zeev Segal (Israel) Daniel Lack (Switzerland) Executive Director Resident Representative to the Ronit Gidron-Zemach (Israel) Council of Europe in Strasbourg Gilles Kaufman * All members of the Executive Committee are members of the Board of Governors JUSTICE No. 45, Spring 2008 Contents Editorial Board President’s Message 2 Adv. Irit Kohn, First Deputy President Sixty years of Israeli law 4 Adv. Michal Navoth Zvi Caspi Mr. Paul Ogden Adv. Marvin Hankin Adv. Eli Schulman Halakha, Mishpat Ivri and the State of Israel 8 Adv. Alon Kaplan Amihay Radzyner Adv. Ronit Gidron-Zemach, Executive Director Washington Conference: Protecting Human Rights 14 and Democratic Values in an Age of Terrorism Managing Editor Eli Schulman Mr. Paul Ogden Ongoing German prosecution 15 Co-ordinating Editor of World War II Nazi war crimes Adv. Michal Navoth Konstantin Kuchenbauer Research Assistants Ori Shlomai, Ortal Azulay, Keren Frucht Bosnia, Serbia and the politics 21 of international adjudication Cover Yuval Shany Israel’s Declaration of Independence (photo by Mark Neyman); the Menorah near the The Protocols of the Elders of Turkey 27 Knesset, Jerusalem (photo by Ya’acov Sa’ar); Supreme Court Building, Jerusalem (photo by Hadassa Ben-Itto Einat Anker); the Knesset, Jerusalem (photo by Moshe Milner). Photo source: Israel Thirteenth International Congress 28 Government Press Office. “60 Years” symbol courtesy Israel Branch, the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. United Nations: Neither redeemable nor reformable 29 Anne Bayefsky Publication of JUSTICE is made possible through the Privatizing justice: Almog vs. Arab Bank 36 generous assistance of the Nadav Fund. Allan Gerson JUSTICE is published by the International The unique case of Jewish secularism 40 Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists Menachem Brinker 10 Daniel Frisch St. Tel Aviv 64731, Israel The Jewish identity of the State of Israel 42 Tel: 972-3-691-0673 Yuval Cherlow Fax: 972-3-695-3855 E-Mail: [email protected] www.intjewishlawyers.org Resolutions adopted at the 46 © 2008 by IAJLJ Thirteenth International Congress ISSN 0793-176X Amendments to articles of association 47 JUSTICE is published for members and friends of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists. Opinions expressed in JUSTICE are those of their authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of JUSTICE or the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists. The accuracy of articles appearing in JUSTICE is the sole responsibility of their authors. Articles in English are welcome but should be preceded by a query to the IAJLJ Editorial Board at [email protected]. Back issues of JUSTICE are available at www.intjewishlawyers.org. POSTMASTER: Send address corrections to Justice, 10 Daniel Frisch St., Tel Aviv 64731, Israel. Spring 2008 1 JUSTICE President’s Message The publication of this issue of Justice coincides with a very special date – the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel n 29 November 1947, the United Nations Today we must gird ourselves anew, for human OGeneral Assembly, voting 33 to 13 in favor with rights are being trampled in many places and Israel, in 10 abstentions, passed a resolution calling for the many quarters, has become the ever-despised Jew establishment of a Jewish state in part of among the nations. Mandatory Palestine. On 14 May 1948, the Who would have thought that 60 years day the British Mandate expired, the after the Holocaust we would be facing so Provisional State Council, the new country’s many denials of this atrocity. Our pro tem legislature, proclaimed Israel’s Association acted on this front when on the Declaration of Independence. The joy of UN’s Holocaust Remembrance Day it sent Jews around the world, thrilled at the first letters to the embassies of many countries in independent Jewish state in almost 2,000 Israel, including Egypt. years, was sharply dimmed when, on the fol- Our Association was founded to address lowing day, the armies of Egypt, Iraq, issues of importance to Jewish people every- Jordan, Lebanon and Syria invaded, starting where, through our members’ qualifications Israel’s War of Independence. After many as jurists. bitter battles and the loss of much life (one percent of We are conferred with Category II status as a non- its population), hostilities ceased with the signing of a governmental organization in the United Nations, series of armistice agreements in 1949. with representation at the General Assembly in New While peace with its Arab neighbors proved elusive York and at the Human Rights Council in Geneva. until the signing of peace agreements with Egypt in Unfortunately, the Human Rights Council is dom- 1979 and with Jordan in 1995, it remains a difficult inated by human rights’ abusers and countries that issue with other countries of the Arab world. Most of have traditionally fought against the mere existence of the larger Muslim world also remains hostile. Yet for the State of Israel. many years Israel was much admired within the dem- In fact, the Second Lebanon War enabled the ocratic world, and even in the communist world, as a Human Rights Council to demonstrate once again its thriving example of the many newly-independent one-sidedness and lack of any intention to achieve countries born after World War II and the demise of objective goals. It attacks Israel at every opportunity, the colonial era. as if no human rights offenses are committed any- In recent years Israelis, and indeed Jews every- where else in the world. Even when Israel’s population where, have been disappointed, and are now worried, is under attack, this is considered a matter for politi- that our beacon of hope has become darkened, the cal “achievement” under the guise of human rights target of vicious libels. We also see that what is called protection against which Israel is required to take a anti-Zionism is very often nothing but anti-Semitism stand; in fact we must constantly take measures to masquerading under a different name. oppose decisions of the Council that are legally base- How prescient, then, were those three great jurists less and morally outrageous. – Justice Arthur Goldberg of the United States, Coupled with our opposing the United Nations’ Justice Haim Cohen of Israel and Nobel Peace Prize and the Human Rights Council’s challenges and reso- Laureate René Cassin of France – when they founded lutions against Israel, we continue to serve and act as our Association. Back then, in 1969, Israel was bask- advocates for the Jewish people. ing in the glow of its victory in the Six Day War. The In recent years, our Association has addressed two notion of anti-Semitism, although it existed, was far fundamental issues that threaten Israel’s right of exis- from the minds of decent people and Jews were seen, tence. The first concerns Iran and its belligerent rightly, as champions of human rights by almost development of nuclear weapons and the venomous everyone. statements made by its president. As you know, Iran 2 No. 45 has openly called for the destruction of Israel, while each Hungarian Jewish lawyer who perished in the blatantly invoking anti-Semitic rhetoric and outra- Holocaust. geously denying the Holocaust, all of which, of The conference hosted by our Bulgarian section in course, are incitements to genocide. Sofia differed in
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