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

The Likud Statement Comes After Some Ten Party Ministers and Lawmakers Publicly or Privately Expressed Objections Over the Weekend to Continued Unilateral Legislation Attempting to Overhaul Israel's Judiciary

In Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and His Far-right Coalition Are Seeking a Ken-ocratic Dictatorship of Their Own The Deep Roots of Israel's Judicial Coup Trace Back to Shas We Even Destroy Their Water Wells Today's Best Reads on Haaretz

Secular Israelis fear the growing Haredi population will give religious parties more power. Economics and labor market trends suggest their power is fading.

Understanding Israel's moment of truth - from the war on Start-up Nation, to the moral crisis in Orthodox Jewry, to the author's personal failure of empathy for political opponents

Israel’s Supreme Court said Wednesday that it would review a contentious new law that diminishes the court’s own role, setting the stage for a constitutional crisis and renewed social turmoil if the judges end up overturning the legislation.

Hundreds of thousands of Israelis have poured into the streets to protest against the plan for the past 7 months, but parliament enacted it on Monday.

Massive protests continue.

President Isaac Herzog Sounded Very Different in March, When He Stood Up Against the Judicial Overhaul Facing Israel, Calling It 'Misguided' and 'Brutal' and Warning That It 'Undermines Our Democratic Foundations'

As protests escalated last week over the judicial overhaul, Israel's finance minister declared the end of the Oslo Accords in all but name.