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Israel Supreme Court strikes down judicial reforms
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67859177
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Israel’s Supreme Court has struck down a controversial judicial reform that triggered nationwide protests last year against the Netanyahu government.
The law caused widespread anger and division, prompting hundreds of thousands of protesters to take the streets calling for the reforms to be scrapped - and for the resignation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Israel’s justice minister and architect of the law Yariv Levin criticised the judges for “taking into their hands all the powers” and called their decision to strike it down undemocratic.
These would have weakened the power of the Supreme Court to review or throw out laws, enabling a simple majority of one in the Knesset (parliament) to overrule such decisions.
The government has also attempted to gain greater power over appointing judges, and to scrap the requirement for ministers to obey the advice of their legal advisers.
Israel’s leadership has been under pressure domestically for its perceived failure for preventing Hamas’s attack on 7 October, and for so far proving unable to rescue all the Israeli hostages who were taken into Gaza.
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