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This is why we ,aCC,~Pt­ o copyright 2004 of our gedolim that it shOuld not be in use1 advertisements listing website ~d~, unless It is an unavoidable _nec_esslty, and then but in no _way does this imply only with all suitable safeguards. While its gedolim or The Jewish Obs<!rvet c dangers must be. r<>~<>gnized. and con· casual use of the ·Internet. ------------'"" ""'__________ Yonoson Rosenblum _ "THE ARROGANCE OF terms of efforts by Israel's old elites to point of view of democracy .. ., this poses ISRAErs ELITES" - REVISITED maintain their dominant role in estab­ a not inconsiderable problem." lishing public norms. Those elites, she Though Gavison's focus was the sraelis have coined the term the said, "have a natural tendency to aggran­ Supreme Court, she also touched on the branja (clique) to describe a small dize the power of the Court in order to connection between the power of the I group of less than a hundred men curb or restrain the process of democ­ Court and the media, another of the and women concentrated in the judici­ ratization [of Israeli society]." remaining bastions of old elite power.