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Security agents assigned outside the High Court of Justice building in Jerusalem were taken by surprise on Thursday morning 9 Elul when a statue was placed on the sidewalk near the intersection of Sussman Street. The statue was in the image of Court President Miriam Naor. Police were summoned and investigating.

After the item was picked up by the media, the Derech Chaim Movement and Hebrew City NGO stepped forward to claim credit for the “Golden Statue of Noar”.

Placing the sculpture as part of a campaign against “the dictatorship of the High Court” states the Derech Chaim media statement, which adds, “The Supreme Court and the enlightened presidency are detached from the people, arrogant, and run as a dictatorship.

“A statue of gold in the image of the president of the Supreme Court in Jerusalem Miriam Naor was placed in front of the Supreme Court this morning by unknown persons. Court guards discovered the statue this morning. They summoned the police, who announced that she had opened an investigation.

“A photographer who photographed the statue was summoned for questioning. Police later reported that the suspicion of criminal activity”.

It is now revealed that the movement behind the statue is a movement for the realization of the vision of a Jewish state, which has been running a campaign under the headline, “Stop the dictatorship of the High Court.” It was also in cooperation of May Golan, who heads a NGO to benefit the residents of southern Tel Aviv neighborhoods.

“The Supreme Court and the enlightened president are cut off from the people. Although the State of Israel is supposedly a democratic state, today the government is in the hands of the Supreme Court, without ever asking the public’s opinion on the issue. The High Court of Justice intervenes repeatedly in the decisions of the elected officials, this week the Infiltrators Law, the next time it will be the law of regulation and other laws.

They say it is time for public officials to wake up, calling on the Prime Minister, cabinet ministers and MKs, who this week expressed their opposition to the disqualification of the law, instead of spreading promises and local solutions to problems arising from the rule of the High Court of Justice, to strive once and for all to uproot and the Knesset.”

It should be noted that in the last few months, the legal branch of the Derech Chaim Movement has been promoting the “Governance Law,” which was placed on the Knesset table with the signatures of 16 MKs: “It is intended to make it unequivocally clear in the Basic Law: In the absence of an entire constitution, the legislative power of the Knesset is vested in the public representative, whereas the role of the court is limited to the interpretation and application of the laws to concrete disputes brought before it.

“The last time I examined the State of Israel is a democratic state, the problem is that in practice we live under the tyranny of the High Court justices, first and foremost Judge Miriam Maor.

“We decided together: Derech Chaim and the Hebrew City Association, that it would be appropriate to put the golden statue of someone who decided that only she would run this country in practice – Supreme Court President Miriam Naor. The time has come to free us from the rule of the High Court of Justice which has an extreme left-wing agenda for an entire nation, the time has come to remove the infiltrators from us and not to let the golden statue continue to control us.

“The time has come for the elected officials elected by the people and not by the senatorial method, to lead the citizens of Israel and implement genuine leadership and sovereignty and will not plan any smallest action according to the criteria of whether or not it will pass the Naor High Court’s test.

After about two hours in which the statue was standing, Jerusalem Municipality workers removed the statue, and it was taken away.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)