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Simcha Rothman tells Knesset legal adviser that curbing judges takes priority, saying many rights don't have special majority clause needed for court intervention under proposal

Parliament okays a number of controversial laws in voting marathon

Legislation pushed for by ultra-Orthodox political parties amid pushback from liberal religious groups will now return to committees before additional Knesset plenum votes

Benjamin Netanyahu is using his sixth term as Israel's prime minister to promote a barrage of constitutional reforms that would cement his rule and strip the judiciary of its ability to check the executive branch. But, argues Ido Baum, while his government may ignore massive public protests, it cannot ignore capital flight

Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East, is undergoing a constitutional crisis.

Israel’s parliament has advanced a bill that would enable lawmakers to overturn a Supreme Court decision with a simple majority, a law that critics say would severely erode the country’s democratic checks and balances

Left and right have diametrically opposed views on the power of the Supreme Court.

One measure, dubbed the “override clause,” would allow the Knesset to re-legislate laws struck down by the Supreme Court.

As the government on Wednesday continued to advance its judicial reform bills, opposition leader Yair Lapid lost his equilibrium. Amid a raucous debate on

Bill radically restricts High Court's powers, barring it from reviewing any law that has a clause precluding it; for laws without clause, 15 unanimous judges needed to strike down