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An unprecedented 'no' to private enterprise [Israel]
An exceptional nine-judge panel headed by Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch - and in an eight-to-one decision, too, with the sole dissenter agreeing in principle - the court ruled the law allowing private prisons was unconstitutional...After a far-reaching philosophical inquiry, her answer is clear: "Economic efficiency is not a supreme value, when we are dealing with basic and important rights for which the state has responsibility."