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High Court will review the coalition's reasonableness law, its first legislation limiting the power of the judiciary, on Tuesday

Dozens of participants at pro-government demonstration seen wearing stickers proclaiming that Yigal Amir, Baruch Goldstein, Amiram Ben Uliel and Meir Kahane 'were right'

Thousands take part in 3-day 'democracy march' in north; protest leader Shikma Bressler apologizes for using the word 'Nazis' in apparent reference to far-right coalition elements

Gali Baharav-Miara expected to submit her position on the matter in light of petitions to the High Court; judges said to receive upped security due to threats

Ahead of September 12 hearing on petitions, coalition submits response to court saying that it lacks statutory authority to strike down such quasi-constitutional legislation

Thousands of Israelis rallied outside the country's Supreme Court on Thursday evening to support Prime Minister Netanyahu's judicial reforms.

From the blog of Lawrence Nowosenetz at The Times of Israel

INSIDE POLITICS: Benjamin Netanyahu is considering issuing a unilateral statement that the judicial reform will be frozen, hoping this will lead to a compromise. But no one believes anything he says.

Government says High Court looks to assert itself as 'sole sovereign' • New details of President Herzog's judicial reform compromise leaked

The Israel Supreme has become a major mobilizing source for the weekly mass protests against the reform that have been taking place in the last six months in many Israeli towns. Tens of thousands of liberals and conservatives rally around this institution, if not around anything else, confident that the Court is capable of preventing the government from irreversibly breaching the democratic walls. Unfortunately, this confidence is both unfounded and likely to sabotage the anti-reform movement. G...