Next week, Greenberg Traurig’s Tel Aviv office will be honored to host Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former Mayor of New York City and current global chair of the firm’s Cybersecurity and Crisis Management Practice and Senior Advisor to firm
US Senate leader McConnell says wait on replacing Scalia – Breaking News – Jerusalem Post
"The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president," McConnell said in a statement.
via www.jpost.com
Greenberg Traurig Sponsors OurCrowd Global Investor Summit
On Jan. 25, 2,400 investors and leaders of the burgeoning start-up scene in Israel braved a rare snowy day in Jerusalem (just days after the east coast of the U.S. was itself covered in snow) to attend the OurCrowd Global
Royal seal of Judah’s King Hezekiah discovered in rubbish dump in Jerusalem | Daily Mail Online
A 2,700-year-old royal seal bearing the mark of the biblical King Hezekiah has been unearthed in Jerusalem.via www.dailymail.co.uk
Zivotovsky v. Kerry (13-628), Mellouli v. Lynch (13-628) and Order List
Greetings, Court Fans!
The Court issued only one decision this week, but it was a biggie: Zivotovsky v. Kerry (13-628), aka the “Jerusalem passport case,” which will surely find its way into the separation-of-powers chapter of Con Law casebooks
Breaking News: Supreme Court Decides Jerusalem Passport Case (Zivotofsky v. Kerry)
Israel on Edge After Five Are Killed in Attack on Synagogue – NYTimes.com
JERUSALEM Two Palestinians armed with a gun, knives and axes stormed a synagogue complex in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of West Jerusalem on Tuesday morning and killed four men in the middle of their morning prayers, the Israeli police said.via
Who Gets to Say Whether Israel Can Go on a Passport?
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Monday in Zivotofsky v. Kerry, the case testing whether Congress can require the State Department to list “Israel” as the country of birth for a
Study links SSRI exposure with smaller head circumference
In March, 2012, G. Dubnov-Raz and a team of Israeli researchers published an article in Early Human Development titled “Maternal use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors during pregnancy and neonatal bone density.” that explores negative consequences of prenatal
Jerusalem Arbitration Center opens doors to Middle East disputes
The Jerusalem Arbitration Center (JAC) opened its doors in late 2013. The JAC is the first arbitration center of its kind in the Middle East, and will provide a neutral forum for the resolution of commercial disputes between Israeli, Palestinian