JERUSALEM: Israel’s Supreme Court president fell backwards and suffered bruises when she was hit in the forehead by a shoe thrown during court proceedings today, public radio reported.

A man in his fifties stood up during the session and hurled a pair of sneakers, yelling “corrupt” and “rotten,” the radio said.

Bailiffs seized the man, who apparently felt wronged by a court decision, media said.

The judge’s husband, Yeheskiel Beinish, said

she was hit on the forehead and the nose and that her glasses were broken. “But she resumed work because there are many pending files,” he told radio.

In the best known such incident, Iraqi journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi threw two shoes at then US president George W Bush on December 14, 2008, during his farewell visit to Baghdad.

He missed in both

cases.

On Monday, a Sudanese man hurled his shoe at President Omar al-Beshir but missed him.