Israel's reasonableness standard law takes effect amid protests
Israel begins to see economic ramifications of judicial reform • High Court hearing on new bill set for after summer recess
What is the next stage of the Israeli government's judicial reform?
The next bill that the coalition will likely promote is on the Judicial Selection Committee, perhaps the most contentious issue of judicial reform.
With the passing of the reasonableness standard bill on Monday, leaders on both sides of the debate have indicated that they believe that it is a non-decisive battle in a longer war.
The next bill that the coalition will likely promote, if negotiations don't resume as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proposed on Monday night, is on the Judicial Selection Committee.
The Judicial Selection Committee is perhaps the most contentious issue of judicial reform, a matter where experts, NGOs and negotiating parties have said were unable to even approach consensus.
Go to the full article >>IDF chief calls on reservists who quit over judicial reform to come back
The IDF had threatened sanctions on reservists who refused to serve in protest over judicial reform and the reasonableness standard bill. Now, the IDF chief appeared to offer amnesty.
IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Herzi Halevi on Sunday called on those reservists who have already quit over the government's reasonableness standard repeal to return to the military's ranks.
If at other stages in the ongoing conflict over reservists' threatening or deciding to quit, the IDF had threatened sanctions, Halevi now seems to have pivoted to offering an amnesty of sorts.
Go to the full article >>Protesters form human chain from the Western Wall to the Knesset
Israel Police Chief and Jerusalem District Commander examine Gan Sacher tents
Israel Police Chief Kobi Shabtai and Jerusalem District Police Commander Doron Turgeman took a tour of the tents set up in Gan Sacher on Sunday morning to gain a better understanding of the security situation there.
The tents belong to judicial reform protesters and are part of an ongoing nationwide protest movement against the governmen'ts projected judicial reforms.
Go to the full article >>Iran media celebrates possible Israel ‘civil war’ and Netanyahu’s ‘crisis’ - analysis
Pro-regime media in Iran had to admit that the protesters had marched to Jerusalem and that Israel’s government is in Jerusalem, a tacit acknowledgement that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
Pro-Iran media on Sunday feasted on Israel’s apparent crisis, focusing on the protests and internal divisions in Israel. Iran’s pro-regime media has for months sought to highlight the protests sweeping Israel, portraying them as an existential crisis for the “Zionist regime.”
Iran, which usually boasts of threats to Israel, not believes the real threat is internal. No longer does Iran have to pretend Israel will collapse from conflict, it now believes Israel may collapse internally, and therefore all Iran has to do is sit by the proverbial river and wait.
Go to the full article >>Rothman: Ministers, not High Court will determine what is reasonable
"The current situation is not democracy, and not the rule of law," Constitution, Law and Justice Committee Chair Simcha Rothman said in the Knesset plenum on Sunday morning, referring to the widespread judicial reform protests taking place. "It is a rule of the people. The High Court will not determine what is reasonable, the ministers will determine [that]."
Go to the full article >>Israeli medical professionals to stage demonstration against judicial reforms
"White coats," an anti-judicial reform protest group populated by medical professionals, announced on Sunday morning that they would be gathering at the Bridge of Strings (Gesher HaMeitarim) in Jerusalem at noon to demonstrate against the government's proposed judicial reforms.
Go to the full article >>'Kaplan force' calls for investigation into police violence
Anti-judicial reform protest movement "Kaplan force" called on Sunday morning for an investigation into an incident of alleged police violence on Saturday night during the judicial reform protests which broke out across the country.
A police officer reportedly beat a protester who was lying on the ground.
"This is severe and intolerable violence in a democracy. We are calling for an investigation," the group said in a statement.
Go to the full article >>Gantz joins judicial reform protests at Western Wall
According to N12, demonstrators will form a human chain from the Western Wall to the Knesset following the prayers.
Hundreds of people gathered on Sunday morning at Jerusalem's Western Wall to participate in a communal prayer before beginning a day of widespread protests against the Israeli government's judicial reform.
National Unity Party leader Benny Gantz was seen on Sunday morning at the Western Wall, and he told N12: "There is a rift in the nation and it must be treated. Netanyahu must stop the legislation."
Go to the full article >>Israel's Judicial Reform
- The Knesset passed the bill to cancel the reasonableness standard into law on Monday, marking the first part of the government’s contentious judicial reform to pass into law