In recent years, since the assassination of associate justice Adi Azar, it seems as if the social taboo surrounding the need to vouch for the well being of judicial appointees has been completely trampled. Murders, threats and other severe acts designed to influence the results of an ongoing trial became a routine. The recent incident in which a fragmentation grenade was thrown at the house of the Petah Tikva's Writ of Execution's Registrar General is a case in point.