Defense Minister Gallant: "If a wide consensus is not achieved, I will not be submitting the conscription law at the behest of the Defense Ministry."
"We must define the limits of the reason of reasonableness," Justice Noam Sohlberg stated in his verdict.
It was contended that the army has the right to protect the kosher food it is obliged to provide in common areas but not in places beyond this.
Prof. Shahar Lifshitz of Bar-Ilan University suggests a more nuanced approach in formulating Basic Laws and urges caution in celebrating the High Court's decision.
The impact of the decision is yet to be seen: it does not mandate, but merely permits, the inclusion of women to be considered for the committee that selects Chief Rabbis and Chief Rabbinate Council.
The overwhelming majority supporting the court’s bold and potentially perilous intervention in the Basic Law underscores a shared perspective among the judges appointed to the Supreme Court.
The war forces the country to put High Court rulings in perspective.
Six out of 11 judges voted to delay the implementation.
MK Tally Gotliv sharply attacked the judges who intended to vote in favor of rejecting the reasonableness law, and claimed that she knows who leaked the draft.
"All of these debates will be had in good time; there is no urgency now. We must first defeat our enemies."
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