The provision deprived the Judiciary of deciding on the “reasonableness” of the decisions of the Executive or Parliament, one of the central points of the reform that sparked one of the most important protest movements in the history of the country.
In the midst of the growing conflict with the group Hamas, the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu had a hard political setback inside his country: the Supreme Court He invalidated a key part of the judicial reform, one of the most controversial measures of his administration. The disposition deprived the Judiciary of deciding on the “reasonableness” of the decisions of the Executive or Parliament and had been strongly criticized by Israeli society.
Eight of the court’s 15 judges voted in favor of invalidate the rule, the Ministry of Justice reported in a statement. Following the Court’s decision, the Minister of Justice, Yariv Levin accused the court of “arrogating all powers to itself.”
For its part, since the party of Netanyahu, the Likud, they considered “regrettable” that Supreme Court publish the verdict of a social debate that had generated so much controversy in the country “while soldiers from right and left fight and risk their lives“.
“The decision of the Court is contrary to the will of the people for unityespecially in a period of war,” added the nationalist party, about a bill that unleashed months of massive mobilizations against it.
Israel: Justice repealed a key point of Netanyahu’s controversial judicial reform
This is the first time in Israel’s history that a court has annulled a basic, quasi-constitutional law.
The judicial reform was announced in January and triggered a broad protest movementone of the most important in the history of Israel.
The reform takes away powers from the country’s judiciary: Judges cannot implement “reasonableness” standards to analyze decisions made by the Government. In addition, the system of electing judges changed. In this way, ministers can install politicians as legal advisors in their wallets.
According to him Government coalition – which brings together right-wing parties, extreme right-wing parties and ultra-Orthodox formations – the norm, Strengthening the power of the deputies over that of the magistrates seeks to correct an alleged imbalance.
The detractors of the reform, on the other hand, they accuse Netanyahutried for corruption, of wanting to use the reform to soften a possible sentence against him, which the politician denies.
Source: Ambito
