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Beyond the Supreme Court: Transparency on Hold:
The Legislative Blitz That Could Government Ministers Still

Undermine Free Elections Concealing Conflicts of Interest

Chen Shalita Uri Blau
Israel’s judicial crisis isn’t just about the Supreme Shomrim continues to track the government’s
Court or the Attorney General. A wave of proposed failure to disclose conflict-of-interest arrange-
laws threatens to make the next elections ments for its ministers. A separate Shomrim
significantly less free and fair, raising concerns investigation exposed the undisclosed financial
about democratic backsliding. holdings of multiple ministers, raising serious
ethical questions. This exposé was featured in
Ynet and Yedioth Ahronoth’s weekend financial
magazine, Mamon.

A War Without Doctors:

Israel’s Leading Cause of Death

Faces a Critical Shortage

Chen Shalita
A Shomrim exclusive based on a Health Ministry
report revealed a severe shortage of oncologists
Illustration by: Moran Barak
in Israel, with only 346 specialists nationwide,
The Hidden Battle of Cancer including part-time retirees. This translates to just

Patients: Bureaucracy as 28 oncologists per million residents—a staggering
a Second Disease contrast to 161 per million in the U.S., 131 in the UK,
and 115 in Germany.
Shlomit Lan The consequences are dire: longer wait times,
Shomrim’s investigative series, also published on shorter doctor-patient interactions, and a
Ynet, revealed the Kafkaesque struggle cancer healthcare system struggling to meet demand.
patients face when trying to secure life-saving With cancer as Israel’s leading cause of death,
treatments. Endless paperwork, bureaucratic every minute counts, and the system is failing to
roadblocks, and prolonged delays leave many keep up.
patients fighting not only their illness but the
system itself.

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