See: Youth (Trial, Punishment and Modes of Treatment) Law, 5731-1971.
The trial of an offence with which a minor is charged is
	Heard in the District or Magistrates’ Court, depending on the severity of the offence. The trial is heard by judges who serve, by special appointment of the President of the Supreme Court, with the consent of the Minister of Justice, as judges of Juvenile Courts.
Unlike the usual rule that court proceedings are held in
	Public, the Juvenile Court sits ‘in camera’. Where a Juvenile Court finds that the minor committed the offence, it directs the submission of a report of a probation officer. After receiving the report, the court decides whether to convict and sentence the minor, or whether to order one or more of the measures and modes of treatment enumerated in the law, or discharge the minor without such an order. Where a minor has been convicted, a Juvenile Court may, instead of imposing imprisonment on him, order that he be kept in a closed home for a period prescribed by it.
Where an offence has been committed by a person
	who on the day of committing it was a minor, the death penalty shall not be imposed nor is there any requirement, notwithstanding anything provided in any law, to impose imprisonment for life, mandatory imprisonment or a minimum penalty.