Elena Chachko is an SJD candidate at Harvard Law School, an International Security Program Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center, and a graduate student associate at the Harvard Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. She is also a researcher at the Amnon Lipkin-Shahak National Security and Democracy program at the Israel Democracy Institute. Elena previously clerked for Chief Justice Asher Grunis on the Supreme Court of Israel, and worked at the Israeli Foreign Ministry as well as the United Nations Office of Counterterrorism. She earned an LL.B in Law and International Relations from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and completed the LLM program at Harvard Law School as a Fulbright scholar.
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These measures reflect broader trends of growing U.S. reliance on targeted sanctions—including going after named individuals—as means for addressing broader foreign and security challenges.
After years of investigations, Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit has announced his decision to consider indicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with multiple counts of graft.
On Feb. 13, the court handed down its decision on the U.S. preliminary objections in Certain Iranian Assets (Iran v. United States).
The Israeli Supreme Court’s decision in Tabish further dilutes the restrictions on the use of force famously established by Public Committee Against Torture v. Israel.
Trump’s announcement is hardly the first time Russia has been accused of significant breaches of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty—but a U.S. withdrawal would have debatable strategic value.
The unanimous order from the International Court of Justice indicates limited provisional measures that fall short of the full relief sought by Iran.
The Israeli legislature has taken another step toward blurring the lines distinguishing the Israeli legal system from the one in the West Bank.