ISRAELI SUPREME COURT NOMINATIONS

Ha'aretz reports on a current Supreme Court nominations battle in Israel, here and here. The candidate is State Prosecutor Edna Arbel. Nominations to Israeli courts are made by the Judges' Nominations Committee, which is composed of three Supreme Court justices, two ministers, two members of the Knesset, and two representatives of the Israel Bar Association. See here. The names of prospective nominees are published by the committee in advance, presumably in order to get public comment on the candidates. This Committee also has the power to remove judges if seven of the nine members vote to do so.

By the way, the SC of Israel has a fantastic web site with an extensive database of its decisions in english, here.

MORE: Arbel was nominated by a vote of seven to one with one abstention. Also nominated were Elyakim Rubinstein, Salim Joubran, and Esther Hayut. Joubran is the first arab to have a permanent post on the Court. For more on the nominations, see this J-Post article.