January 31, 2009, Jerusalem Post: While the government and IDF strenuously strove to implement lessons learned from the last war and provide the troops in Gaza with every possible means to shield themselves against enemy fire, they negligently allowed our soldiers' flanks to be exposed to danger from a different quarter.

The international campaign accusing officers of war crimes against Palestinian civilians has steadily been gathering steam over the past decade. The short-sighted reluctance of elected officials and the IDF's legal department to confront the issue head-on has left the government and its senior officers scurrying to develop an effective strategy and play catch up.

January 29, 2009Jerusalem Post: Making Terrorists Pay - Shurat Hadin founding director Nitsana Darshan-Leitner sues for justice

When attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner was a law student at Bar-Ilan University in the mid-1990s, she got her first taste of arguing a case before the Supreme Court. It was an experience that would shape the course of her history - and career - in ways she couldn't have anticipated.

January 23, 2009, Jerusalem Post: In the shadow of threatened international legal action against Israeli leaders following Operation Cast Lead, Shurat Hadin: The Israel Law Center became the first group to launch a legal counterattack Thursday.

Thursday, January 1, 2009, Israel National News: Bank HaPoalim and Bank Discount announced their refusal on Thursday to transfer Israeli shekels to Gaza. The Bank of Israel has asked the government's Postal Bank to do the job.