Lifting the veil of secrecy: judicial review of administrative detentions in the Israeli supreme court

All around the world, hundreds of individuals are
constantly subjected to administrative detentions designed to
prevent them from committing future atrocities. Generally, the
main protection against arbitrary and unjustified
administrative detentions is judicial review. Nonetheless,
judicial review of administrative detention proceedings suffers
from inherent difficulties and is typically based on ex parte
proceedings and secret evidence. In spite of these difficulties and
based on a few renowned cases, it is widely accepted in the
scholarly debates that the Israeli judicial review model is robust