{"id":508477,"date":"2026-06-24T06:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T06:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/508477\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T06:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T06:47:09","slug":"solberg-postponing-elections-during-emergency-may-be-justified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/508477\/","title":{"rendered":"Solberg: Postponing elections during emergency may be justified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chairman of the Central Elections Committee, Deputy Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Noam Solberg, said at a closed conference at the Hebrew University that if there is a state of emergency in which it is not possible to advance free, equal and accessible elections for all voters \u2013 &#8220;a limited, supervised and reasoned postponement may be justified \u2013 as long as it does not become a tool in the hands of the government to extend its term.&#8221; According to Solberg, when making a decision on this matter, six principles must be considered: &#8220;the necessity principle&#8221;; &#8220;the temporariness principle&#8221;; &#8220;the institutional pluralism principle&#8221;; the fourth principle \u2013 &#8220;last resort&#8221;; the fifth principle is the transparency and reasoning principle; the last principle is the return to routine. According to him, a proper postponement arrangement must include in advance the way out of it as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chairman of the Central Elections Committee, Deputy Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Noam Solberg, said at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-508477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}