From [HERE] Israel's High Court ruled against Haaretz's court petition to declassify the years-worth of government minutes detailing closed-door deliberations over the country's coronavirus pandemic response.

Since the outbreak of the pandemic in March 2020, the deliberations regarding it in the government, the COVID cabinet and other ministerial committees have been classified as secret. Participants in these discussions worked off the assumption that minutes would be kept secret, but a petition by Haaretz, The Movement for Freedom of Information in Israel and fought to bring the archive of discussions to public light.

Alongside the demand to declassify the meeting transcripts for public inspection, the petition sought to challenge the very procedure by which all ministerial meetings are automatically classified, which seals them from the public eye for at least 30 years. [MORE]