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
NGOs prepare High Court petitions against reasonableness
If the petition is accepted, it would be the first time the court heard arguments to abolish a matter of a Basic Law.
Reasonableness issue requires serious and consensual discussion - opinion
A government that wants to act in its citizens’ interests, in a professional manner and on the basis of appropriate considerations, has nothing to fear from the test of reasonableness.
The major legal issues of the last 75 years that altered Israeli society
LEGAL AFFAIRS: Consulting with Israel's legal professionals has exposed major issues that have plagued the Israeli public since the state was founded.
Will the Knesset be back to judicial reform mayhem post-recess?
Political affairs: The new Knesset’s first session was dominated by the judicial overhaul controversy. What should we expect when it resumes its activity on April 30?
What is in Herzog’s judicial reform ‘People’s Outline?’ - explainer
President Isaac Herzog presented his judicial reform outline on Wednesday night
'Deri Law 2.0' passes committee vote, heads to plenum for first reading
The law proposal's purpose is to enable Netanyahu to reinstate Deri after the High Court struck down his appointment last month.
Impairment Law passes in special committee vote to go to Knesset
The Impairment Law amends a provision in the quasi-constitutional Basic Law: Government and will now proceed to an initial Knesset vote.
Judicial reform legislation to barrel ahead this week
Herzog warned that the legislation being prepared for readings in the Knesset’s Constitution, Law and Justice Committee “is wrong, predatory and dismantles our democratic foundations..."
Lapid calls to write Israeli constitution in response to judicial reform
The Declaration of Independence has no formal legal status in the Israeli government system, which Lapid proposed should be changed by making the document the first chapter of a new constitution.
Judicial reform bills to be sent to Knesset in two committee votes on Sunday
In a move that surprised and angered coalition committee members, committee chairman MK Simcha Rothman had decided to hold the revision vote on Sunday.
