Judicial Reform

Supreme Court justices accuse Levin of deepening judge shortage as appointments clash escalates

The Sunday letter, replying to Levin’s Judicial Selection Committee notice, said he had finally acknowledged, after delay, the harm caused by failing to convene the committee and fill posts.

 Justice Minister Yariv Levin at a Knesset committee meeting in Jerusalem. January 21, 2025.
Israeli journalist Amit Segal speaks during the Jabotinsky conference in Jerusalem, December 23, 2024.

Amit Segal claims Netanyahu offered him fourth spot on Likud list, 'any ministerial role' in 2022

High Court Justice Daphne Barak-Erez arrives for a hearing on petitions calling to halt or substantially limit State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman’s investigations into the failures surrounding the Hamas's October 7 massacre, December 29, 2025; illustrative.

Israel legal gatekeepers must be careful not to overreach - opinion

Ehud Barak, a former prime minister of Israel, announces the establishment of a new political party that he will lead, in Tel Aviv, June 26, 2019.

Ehud Barak as Israel’s WASP elite standard bearer - opinion


Post-October 7, coalition more concerned with controlling the systems than addressing recovery

More than two years after October 7, the governing coalition continues to advance sweeping institutional reforms, while legislation addressing recovery, reserve burdens, and accountability lags.

A PLENUM session at the Knesset.

Israeli protest leaders to join forces with Democrats in next election, Yair Golan announces

Golan confirmed that the new party members will be Moshe Radman, Moran Michel, Danny Elgarat, Hadas Ragolsky, Gaby Lasky, Ami Dror, Lee Hoffman, Kati Piasecki, Rotem Sivan, and Tomer Avital.

Yair Golan announced the new members of the Democrats Party.

Connecting the dots: The deep state is not hidden, it runs Israel - opinion

As part of Israel’s legal system and political structure, they are essential to the way the government works. The challenge, however, is to understand how decisions are made and by whom.

Arnon Ben Dor, Chairman of the Histadrut, visits in the Northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona., June 27, 2024.

High Court of Justice nullifies govt’s dismissal of attorney-general, Baharav-Miara to remain

The court ruled that the decision was procedurally flawed and legally untenable, and that both the revision of the term-ending process and the subsequent dismissal were void. 

Attorney general Gali Baharav-Miara at a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset, in the Israeli parliament on September 30, 2025.

Parashat Vayishlack: Nuance in an age of absolutism

Experiences that could refine us and mature us are processed too quickly to leave a lasting imprint. Instead of being transformed by life, we merely skim it.

HOW MUCH subtlety can survive in 100 cramped words?

Full Supreme Court to hear challenge to Judicial Selection Committee law

Israel’s Supreme Court escalates its review of the Judicial Selection overhaul, assigning the case to all 11 justices and delaying hearings to June.

View of the empty courtroom at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on July 13, 2025.

Israel's self-declared gatekeepers should be locked out or locked up - opinion

Yair Golan’s rhetoric and Gali Baharav-Miara’s influence show how gatekeepers now shape the political arena as much as those they claim to restrain.

YAIR GOLAN, chairman of The Democrats Party, appears before his MKs at a parliamentary faction meeting in the Knesset last month. In Israel, hypocritical behavior is fairly standard, the writer argues.

Judicial reform, internal Israeli conflict led to Oct. 7 massacre, Hamas propaganda expert claims

He emphasized that he relied exclusively on primary sources: Hamas’s official website, the organization’s official newspaper, and the Izzadin al-Qassam Brigades’ website.

 Thousands of Israelis protest against the planned judicial overhaul, at the Azrieli junction in Tel Aviv, on April 8, 2023

Thin constitution needed to stabilize the government amid political crisis - opinion

Israel’s political future depends on adopting a thin constitution that prioritizes stability, fairness, and compromise, ensuring democratic governance amid internal divisions.

THE KNESSET plenum meets this week. Israel’s rules of the game are not anchored in a constitution and can be changed by a simple Knesset majority, the writer notes.

Three years that traversed a lifetime: A journalist's covering of Israel at war, crisis - comment

A ‘Jerusalem Post’ reporter recalls the tumultuous times covering judicial upheaval, wartime politics, and a changed country.

THOUSANDS OF protesters rally against the government’s judicial overhaul bills out of the Knesset, in July, 2023.