Judicial Selection Committee

The prime minister appeared to drop regulating legal advisers and restricting judicial review from the agenda. 

Netanyahu dismissed fears of civil war and offered a hopeful message that the opposing sides “will mesh.”

The prime minister sends a message that the coalition doesn't need the opposition to negotiate to advance its judicial agenda.

The petitioners argued that Levin was abusing his role as justice minister to further political considerations.

The next bill that the coalition will likely promote is on the Judicial Selection Committee, perhaps the most contentious issue of judicial reform.

The altering of the Judicial Selection Committee has been a key component of the judicial reform from the outset.

The reasonableness bill would limit the the ability of the courts to strike down government administrative decisions deemed extremely unreasonable.

The new version of the bill restricts the use of reasonableness standard by courts against the administrative decisions of the prime minister and other ministers.

Justice Minister Yariv Levin set to face growing pressure to convene the Judicial Selection Committee.

"When people bleed in the streets, the responsibility will first and foremost be his," Gantz charged.