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All too often the Knesset amends Israels Basic Laws - how does this compare with other parliamentary democracies?

A protest against the High Court of Justice is expected to take place outside of High Court President Esther Hayut's home on Thursday night.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assured NBC News on Monday that wherever the debate in Israel over his government’s judicial reform effort leads, it won’t be to violence. “There won’t be civil war. I guarantee you that,” the premier told the U.S. network’s foreign correspondent Rafael Sanchez in his office in Jerusalem.

From the blog of Giorgio Gomel at The Times of Israel

Petitions against two coalition Basic Law amendments, and justice minister's refusal to convene crucial panel, give retiring court chief chance to leave final far-reaching mark

The Letter by Representatives of Israel's 200 Biggest Firms Warns of 'Unprecedented and Irreversible Damage to the Israeli Economy and Democracy,' After Netanyahu Repeatedly Refused to Say That He Would Abide by the Upcoming Court Ruling

It’s been a long, hot summer in Israel, not only because of the multiple heat waves, but also due to the domestic political developments that have been heating up throughout 2023 and are now reaching a boiling point. With the Supreme Court gearing up to make highly consequential decisions in September and the Knesset in recess until mid-October, it is a good time to look back at all that Israel has gone through since the beginning of the year. For some on the Israeli right, it is a midsummer n...

In 30 weeks of protests against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's judicial reforms, hundreds of thousands of Israelis have taken to the streets.

Since I Haven’t Had My Morning Coffee Yet, This Could Come Off as a Little Rude: Israel’s Basic Laws, All of Them, Are Utter Drivel. They Were Conceived Through

High Court President Esther Hayut aims for a bombshell Bibi ruling