If the bill passes, the IBA would be replaced by the new Council, which would be controlled by the coalition
Becher received 28,000 votes in favor of his remaining as chairman, out of 39,150 votes cast, in an election that saw a record turnout.
Becher is starkly against the government's judicial reforms, and participated a number of times in protests against the reforms in recent months.
Interim Israel Bar Association chairman Amit Becher, a staunch opponent of the judicial reform, may have won the Bar's elections.
The IBA has two of the nine seats on the Judicial Selection Committee that appoints all of this country's judges, giving it outsized influence.
Candidates urged voters to engage in their democratic right as soon as possible, as most polls closed at 5 p.m., and there were long queues.
The Bar said that Tuesday will see 77,201 lawyers go to one of 171 polling stations across 67 towns in Israel and submit up to four different colored ballots.
Efi Nave and the Zionist Legal Initiative signed an agreement to join and divide votes between them in the Bar Association's upcoming election.
Top members of the Israel Bar Association vie ahead of elections, debating over the Israeli government's proposed judicial reform.
"This is the reform that needs to be done," said Nave, as ongoing judicial reform negotiations and debates continued in the country.
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