Schedule for Dinei Yisrael Review Courses Posted

As a follow up to a previous post regarding this year's Dinei Yisrael exams for foreign qualified lawyers seeking to be admitted to the Israeli Bar, I just found the schedule for the Jerusalem review classes for the Dinei Yisrael Exam on the Bar Office's website.

It appears that Professor Yoel Tsur is stepping in for David Seville and organizing things this year.

The classes will be held at the Jerusalem Law Centre, 1 Chopin street- bus no. 13.

To register, contact The Israel Bar, Jerusalem, tel. 02-5411200, fax: 02-5610062  e-mail: mitmahim@israelbar.prg.il.

The charge for the course is: 200 NIS 1-2 subjects; 500NIS 3 subjects or more. And each exam costs 160 NIS.


And I have learned from Professor Tsur that even if you took the course in the past but failed the exam and want to take the course again, you must pay again. I'm not sure that's how David Saville did it and I definitely don't like that policy. I guess they don't guarantee your passage like BarBri.

The Bar Gets Higher: Record Low Bar Passage Rate in Israel

News outlets are reporting that preliminary results show that only about 50% of those who took the Israeli Bar Exam last week successfully passed the test. (See the hebrew article at The Marker here.) The average score was a 64 out of 100, and the passing grade is a 65.

Is this the Bar Association's way of thinning the herd and dealing with the problem of too many lawyers?

Does an overly difficult exam violate students' basic right to freedom of occupation?

The students who took the exam are weighing their options, including appealing the fairness of some of the question, suing the Bar Association, and protesting.

There are other countries with harder exams. The bar passage rate last year in Japan was 25% and two law schools in that country reported that none of their graduates passed the exam. See the article from the ABA Journal here. And I've seen some people writing that Brazil's bar passage rate is even lower but I didn't see a reliable source for that claim.