Show Trials for the October 7 Terrorists Won’t Be Justice. Quite the Opposite
Tal Steiner, Opinion Column in Haaretz Newsaper English Edition, October 23rd 2025
Following the Knesset Constitution Law and Justice Committee discussion on the draft bill proposed by MKs Simcha Rothman and Yulia Malinovsky to establish “a special court to judge the October 7 participants,” which had been approved in a preliminary hearing in the summer. The draft bill calls for establishing a special tribunal subject to political control whereby ministers, rather than the State of Israel’s independent judicial system, will determine the prosecution policy and appoint its judges.