The Israeli government and the country’s Supreme Court may be on a collision course that could result in another attempt to reform the judiciary and restore the balance of power among the three branches of government, Justice Minister Yariv Levin said Saturday night.
More than a year after the war in Gaza forced the government’s judicial reform plan off the agenda, and a year and a half since Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu froze efforts to move forward with the reform in the face of large-scale protests, Levin suggested over the weekend that Israel’s Supreme Court may force the coalition to revive his shelved reform plan.
On Saturday night, Levin published a lengthy Facebook post accusing the Supreme Court of running roughshod over the rights of the country’s legislative and executive branches. Based on this he says it now compels the Israeli government to start the judicial reform process. We pray that this time the process proceeds full throttle to prevent further outrageous judicial overreach.