Supreme Court of Israel (Beit HaMishpat HaElyon)

1 Israel has no one document known as ‘The Constitution’, and therefore, no specific ‘Constitutional Court’. For nearly half a century, Israel’s legal structure was based on the principle of parliamentary sovereignty. But since the ‘constitutional revolution’ of the nineties—the enactment of basic laws on human rights and the monumental judicial decision of the Mizrahi Bank Case (Isr) (United Mizrahi Bank Ltd v Migdal Cooperative Village)—Israel is considered a constitutional democracy. The supreme norms are expressed in its basic laws; the powers of the...