Israeli Prime Minister Beniamin Netanyahu must be on edge right now. Israel’s Supreme Court decided this Monday to abolish the key law of its highly contested reform of the judiciary. The Supreme Court annuls it by a majority of eight judges to seven.
The legislation, approved in July and now rejected, limited judicial oversight over government action: it eliminated the possibility of the Supreme Court overturning decisions by the government and ministers that it considers “unreasonable.”
The law “causes serious and unprecedented damage to the fundamental characteristics of Israel as a democratic State,” details the ruling, made public today. The words are in line with the criticism launched by its many detractors in Israel, who denounced that it would undermine the division of powers in the country and the independence of Justice.
The judges published the verdict this afternoon, in addition, to avoid the leaks that had been occurring in recent days and in response to a proposal, raised in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, to allow a delay in the publication of the due verdict. to the Gaza war underway today.
The law has been the fuse that has lit massive protests in the country against Netanyahu’s Executive for months and months before the war. And they have been repeated, although more sporadically, even in the midst of the offensive in Gaza.
Netanyahu remains even more on the wire. The Supreme Court’s verdict comes while it is still unclear how it was possible that Hamas militants could carry out the massacre of October 7.
