Opposition and protest leaders said immediately after the Knesset vote that the real struggle begins now.
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.
If the petition is accepted, it would be the first time the court heard arguments to abolish a matter of a Basic Law.
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.
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The law proposal's purpose is to enable Netanyahu to reinstate Deri after the High Court struck down his appointment last month.
The Impairment Law amends a provision in the quasi-constitutional Basic Law: Government and will now proceed to an initial Knesset vote.
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..."