The middle tier, with Magistrates' Courts below. Israeli law is a mixture of Ottoman and British Mandate remnants, its own codifying statutes and case law; some Mandate-era and even Ottoman land provisions still surface in property disputes.
How the court is constituted
- Tier
- appellate
- Court type
- Superior court of first instance and appeal
- Jurisdiction
- First-instance jurisdiction over serious criminal offences, higher-value civil claims, company and insolvency matters, and appeals from the Magistrates' Courts.
- Seat
- Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa, Be'er Sheva, Nazareth, Lod
- Established
- 1948
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