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Collective Memory and Judicial Legitimacy: The Historical Narrative of the Israeli Supreme Court

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2014

Daphne Barak-Erez
Daphne Barak-Erez
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Deputy Dean, Faculty of Law, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv,Israel, [email protected]
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Abstract

Occasionally, courts assume the role of historians and narrate stories of historic significance. The courts are fully aware of their “historical” role when they are called to make decisions about historical facts in a dispute that happens to be relevant to their decision. In contrast, this article centers on the unwitting writing of history by the courts when they describe past events as uncontested historical facts, usually through the doctrine of “judicial notice,” ignoring the fact that their story is not necessarily uncontested. As a test-case, the article focuses on decisions given by the Supreme Court of Israel, especially in the formative period of the State. The article argues that the historical narratives of judges, who are usually part of the mainstream in their societies, represent the nation's accepted version of its collective memory. It then tries to shed light on the importance of this narrative in the context of the court's institutional legitimacy.

Résumé

Les tribunaux jouent parfois le rôle d'historien et rapportent le récit d'affaires ayant une importance historique. Ils sont pleinement conscients de ce rôle “historique” lorsqu'ils sont appelés à prendre des décisions se rapportant à des faits historiques dans un litige relevant de leur compétence. Cet article est, par comparaison, centré sur l'écriture involontaire de l'histoire par les tribunaux lorsqu'ils rapportent un événement passé comme un fait historique incontestable, généralement à travers la doctrine de la connaissance judiciaire, en ignorant le fait que cette version puisse être contestée. Pour souligner ces propos, cet article se concentre sur les décisions prises par la Cour Suprême israélienne en particulier pendant la formation de l'Etat. Il affirme que le récit historique des juges, qui généralement font partie de l'élite d'une société, représente la version reconnue de la mémoire collective. Il s'efforce, ensuite, de mettre en lumière l'importance de ce récit dans la légitimité institutionnelle des tribunaux.

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Section: Law and History/Dossier: Droit et histoire
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Canadian Journal of Law and Society / La Revue Canadienne Droit et Société , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , April 2001 , pp. 93 - 112
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Copyright © Canadian Law and Society Association 2001

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1 The use of judicial sources as raw material for social history is common practice in historical research.

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16 Cr.A. 347/88, Demjanjuk v. State of Israel 37 (4) P.D. 221.

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20 See H.C. (High Court, the Supreme Court sitting as a High Court of Justice) 152/82, Alon v. Government of Israel 36 (4) P.D. 449 (Hebrew).

21 See supra note 4.

22 See H.C. 4185/90, The Temple-Mount Faithful Movement v. The Attorney-General 47 (5) P.D. 221 at 228–47 (Hebrew).

23 See H.C. 3269, 4637, 7617/95 Katz v. The Jerusalem District Court 50 (4) P.D. 590 at 617 (Hebrew).

24 Note that the court undertakes to narrate history in these judgments as well, but what makes them special is that it does so with full awareness of their significance.

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26 E.A. (Election Appeal) 1/65 Yeredor v. The Chairman of the Central Election Committee for the Sixth Knesset 19 (3) P.D. 365 (Hebrew).

27 Ibid. at 386. Note that Justice Sussman, who concurred with Justice Agranat, learned a different lesson from history, based on the experience of the Weimar Republic (see ibid. at 389). In so doing he was following the ruling of Justice Witkon in H.C. 253/64, Charts v. The Haifa District Commissioner 18 (4) P.D. 673 at 679 (Hebrew). For a discussion of this case, see also Lahav, supra note 17, at 181–95. A closely related example is the decision of Justice Elon in the Ben Shalom case, E.A. 2/88, Ben Shalom v. The Central Election Committee for the Twelfth Knesset 43 (3) P.D. 221 (Hebrew). Justice Elon was in favor of disqualifying lists of candidates whose platform negated the legitimacy of Israel as a Jewish state, and based his ruling on a detailed historical survey of the close ties of Jews to Zion (ibid. at 265–71).

28 H.C. 125/49, Amado v. The Director of the Immigrants' Camp Pardess Hanna 4 P.D. 4 (Hebrew), officially translated in (1948/1953) 1 S.J. (Selected Judgments of the Supreme Court of Israel) 299.

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32 Ibid. at 158.

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38 Shapira, supra note 36, at 12. Shapira goes on to refer to the success of the critical school in bringing about a “consensus drift.” She argues that “the fact that ideas that seemed marginal twenty years ago have now become partly legitimate reflects a slow shift in patterns of what is accepted and patterns of collective memory” (ibid. at 32).

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52 Defense Regulations 1939, and Defense (Emergency) Regulations 1945 (henceforth: Defense Regulations).

53 H.C. 5/48, Leon v. Acting District Commissioner of Tel-Aviv 1 P.D. 58 (Hebrew), officially translated in (1948/1953) 1 S.J. 41.

54 H.C. 10/48, Zeev v. Acting District Commissioner of Tel-Aviv 1 P.D. 85 (Hebrew), officially translated in (1948/1953) 1 S.J. 68.

55 The Leon case, supra note 53, at 66 (Hebrew).

56 H.C. 7/48, Al-Carbutli v. Minister of Defense 2 P.D. 5 (Hebrew).

57 Ibid. at 12.

58 Law and Administration Ordinance, 1948, which was the first statute to be enacted in Israel, stated the following in Section 11: “The law which existed in Palestine … shall remain in force … subject to such modifications as may result from the establishment of the State and its authorities.”

59 See Motion 41/49 Shimshon Palestine Portland Cement Factory Ltd v. Attorney-General 4 P.D. 143 (Hebrew), officially translated in (1948/1953) 1 S.J. 290; H.C. 113/49 Sifri v. Minister of Justice 4 P.D. 613 (Hebrew); C.A (Civil Appeal) 55/49, Finegold v. Administrator-General 5 P.D. 1180 (Hebrew); H.C. 279/51 Amsterdam v. Minister of Finance 6 P.D. 945 (Hebrew); C.A. 28/52, ‘Peles’ Advertising Co Ltd v. Ministry of Transport 9 P.D. 436 (Hebrew).

60 The Shimshon case, ibid. at 148.

61 H.C. 59/49, Dimant v. Minister of Finance 4 P.D. 164 (Hebrew).

62 Ibid. at 167.

63 S.C. (Shipping Case) 1/49, Zur Ships Co Ltd v. Attorney-General 4 P.D. 288 (Hebrew).

64 Ibid. at 297.

65 Clearly, the collective memories of the Palestinians concerning the war are totally different. See, for instance, Abu-Louhod, I., “El-Nakba [The Disaster]: This is What Happened,” (1998) 16 Alpayim 152. (Hebrew).Google Scholar

66 H.C. 125/51, Hassin v. Minister of the Interior 5 P.D. 1386 (Hebrew).

67 Ibid. at 1392.

68 Cr.A. 44/52, Diab v. Attorney-General 6 P.D. 922 (Hebrew), officially translated in (1948/1953) 1 S.J. 269.

69 Ibid. at 932.

70 See also Lahav, supra note 29, at 496 (Hebrew).

71 The Yeredor case, supra note 26, at 386 (Hebrew). As stated, Justice Agranat extended his historical reference in this judgment to what might be considered “learning from history.” See supra note 27.

72 Ibid. at 380.

73 H.C. 114/78, Borkhan v. Minister of Finance, 32 (2) P.D. 800 (Hebrew).

74 Ibid. at 805. Moreover, the recapture of the Old City of Jerusalem in the Six-Day War is commonly described in Israel as “liberation.” Thus, for instance, Justice Shamgar in his opinion in the Borkhan case, explained that “when the Old City was liberated in the Six-Day War, the government decided that the city should be restored to its former glory” (ibid, at 806). A similar terminology is also used in other recent judgments. In his opinion in the case of the Temple-Mount Faithful, Justice Elon completed as follows the historical survey regarding the Temple Mount in the events of the Six-Day War: “When the Kingdom of Jordan began a military offensive against the State of Israel and Jewish Jerusalem, the Temple Mount and the Western Wall were liberated from Jordanian occupation” (the Temple-Mount Faithful case, supra note 22, at 246). Recently, in C.A. 2405/91, 2912/93, The State of Israel v. The Estate of Rabbi Pinchas David Horowitz, Deceased 51 (5) P.D. 23 (Hebrew), dealing with an expropriation of land in Jerusalem, Justice Cheshin explained that “[w]ith the capture of the Old City of Jerusalem by the Arab Legion in the War of Independence, contact between the owners and their assets was lost. That was the situation until the Six-Day War in 1967, when Jerusalem was liberated” (ibid. at 28).

75 H.C. 807/78, Ein Gal v. Film and Theater Censorship Board, 33 (1) P.D. 274 (Hebrew).

76 Ibid. at 275.

77 ibid. at 275–76.

78 ibid. at 276.

79 H.C. 8382/96, The National Insurance Institute v. The National Labor Court 51(5) P.D. 658.

80 Ibid. at 663.

81 Ibid. at 664.

82 Note, however, that the Court did not address this accepted narrative of history in its decision on a previous case, dealing with the political organization of the El-Ard group. The Court rejected an appeal to register the group as an Ottoman association. See the Charts case, supra note 27.

83 See supra notes 79–81.

84 For the distinction between plain historical narratives and the process of drawing conclusions from it, see Section 2 of this article. A full discussion of the inclination of the Court to draw conclusions from history is beyond the scope of this article, and the examples mentioned in the text are quoted only for purposes of comparison.

85 H.C. 72/62, Rufeisen v. Minister of the Interior 16 P.D. 2428 (Hebrew), officially translated in 6 S.J. 1.

86 Ibid. at 2441.

87 H.C. 58/68, Shalit v. Minister of the Interior, 23(2) P.D. 477 (Hebrew), officially translated in 6 S.J. 35.

88 This was the approach adopted by Justice Silberg, ibid. at 493.

89 This was the approach of Justice Berinson, ibid. at 606–7. For further discussion of this case, see Lahav, supra note 17, at 196–220.

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93 In the 78th Federalist, Alexander Hamilton explained that “[t]he Judiciary … has no influence over either the sword or the purse” (Hamilton, A., Madison, J. & Jay, J., The Federalist Papers, ed. by Rossiter, C., (New York: New American Library, 1961) at 465).CrossRefGoogle Scholar Following this well-known text. Justice Frankfurter argued that “[t]he Court's authority — possessed of neither the purse nor the sword — ultimately rests on sustained public confidence in its moral sanction” (Baker v. Carr, [1962] 369 U.S. 186 at 267).

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98 Proverbs 27: 6.

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