Unlike other Supreme Courts, Israel's highest bench invites foreigners to serve as Clerks

Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis · Sep 21, 2023 · 36m

Our daughter, our son and our daughter-in-law all clerked at Israel’s Supreme Court at various times over the past decade. We would hear lots of “court talk” in those days—not about specific cases, of course, but the culture of the court and the like. And periodically, one of them would mention a non-Israeli working at the court, a comment that perplexed me but to which I didn’t pay much attention.

Turns out, I learned this summer, Israel is the only (to my knowledge, but certainly among a very few) country that invites law students and graduates from other countries to serve as Clerks to a…