Basic Law
Israel's new death penalty law marks moral break, sparks discrimination fears, expert says
For Prof. Yoram Rabin, a criminal and constitutional law scholar and president of the College of Management Academic Studies, the law is both a moral rupture and a legally vulnerable one.
Chaos of October 7: What any inquiry must uncover - opinion
What's behind bills to 'split' A-G role - and will it change Israel's legal governance? - explainer
Full Supreme Court to hear challenge to Judicial Selection Committee law
The High Court process: How the judicial reform hearing will happen - explainer
The High Court of Justice hearing on the reasonableness standard will be presided over by all 15 justices, which has never been done before. Here's the process for how it will work.
Gov't demands High Court postpone reasonableness clause hearing
If postponed, the hearing may come at a time when High Court President Esther Hayut and a justice are set to retire.
What are the chances Israel could have a constitution?
LEGAL AFFAIRS: The creation of a constitution is plagued with its own share of disagreements and challenges.
High Court unlikely to strike down law protecting Netanyahu - analysis
The problems with the incapacitating law are nothing personal.
High Court to discuss Netanyahu's Incapacitation Law after A-G attack
High Court President Esther Hayut, Vice President Uzi Vogelman, and Justice Yitzhak Amit will preside over the hearing in which arguments will be made about the Basic Law: The Government amendment.
NGO to attorney general: Does reasonableness law apply to West Bank?
Yesh Din argued that only the military had the authority to set rules and regulations in the West Bank.
High Court hearing on new law set for after summer recess
A barrage of petitions was filed against the reasonableness bill on Monday and Tuesday, after it had passed in a dramatic Knesset voting session on Monday.
Can Israel's High Court cancel the newly-passed judicial reform law?
The basic laws are the fundamental legal framework under which the power of judicial review exists.
Israel needs a constitution to avoid crisis - analysis
Opposition and protest leaders said immediately after the Knesset vote that the real struggle begins now.
Israel's Bar joins barrage of High Court petitions against new law
The purpose of the law, the Israeli Bar contended, was to "immunize" the heads of the executive authority from acting within the bounds of reason.
