Judgment in Jerusalem : Chief Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist century / Pnina Lahav.

Berkely, Calif. : University of California Press, c1997.

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Agranat, Simon, -- 1906-1992.

Judges -- Israel -- Biography.

Law -- Israel -- History.

I. From America to Palestine: 1. America, 1906-1930

2. Palestine, 1930-1948

II. Laying the foundations for a judicial bill of rights: 3. Israel, 1948-1953

4. In quest of progressive reform

5. The foundations of progressive reform

6. Law, morality, and judicial review

III. Confronting the holocaust: 7.} Blaming the victims: the Kasztner trial

8. Blaming the victimizers: the Eichmann trial

IV. Politics and the rule of law: 9. Who is the guardian of the law: the Minister of Justice or the Attorney General?

V. Between past and future: 10. Chief Justice Agranat

11. Arab representation in the Jewish state

12. Who is a Jew? The split revisited

VI. The Yom Kippur war: 13. War and the Agranat commission

VII. Judging the truth truthfully: 14. Retirement, 1976-1992

Epilogue.

Includes index.

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xvii, 331 p. : ill, ports.