Judicial Selection Committee

Levin tells High Court advancing permanent district court appointments not realistic pre-elections

With elections approaching, the window for ordinary appointments is closing quickly.

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Justice Minister Yariv Levin, MK Simcha Rothman (Religious Zionist Party), and MK Yulia Malinovsky hold joint press conference in Knesset ahead of upcoming vote on bill to publicly prosecute Oct. 7 terrorists, Sunday May 10, 2026.
Justice Minister Yariv Levin, Ministers and Mk's attend a plenum session at the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, December 10, 2025.

High Court presses Levin to advance district court appointments by Tuesday

Justices focus on Beersheba, Haifa courts as petitioners seek final order before election clock freezes Judicial Selection Committee.

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Israeli attorney general Gali Baharav Miara at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem

A-G: Levin’s partial plan to convene judge selection panel does not end High Court case

The filing, submitted on behalf of the legal advisory system and the Courts Administration, comes ahead of a hearing scheduled for Sunday on Levin’s refusal to convene the committee.

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Justice Minister Yariv Levin at a Knesset committee meeting in Jerusalem. January 21, 2025.

Supreme Court justices accuse Levin of deepening judge shortage as appointments clash escalates

The Sunday letter, replying to Levin’s Judicial Selection Committee notice, said he had finally acknowledged, after delay, the harm caused by failing to convene the committee and fill posts.

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What do we know about the 'compromise outline?' - analysis

The reasonableness standard law, which is set to be deliberated on before the High Court of Justice next Tuesday, would reportedly be softened through a return to legislation.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023ByMICHAEL STARR
MK SIMCHA ROTHMAN, head of the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee and one of the architects of the government’s judicial reform legislation, attends a discussion and a vote on the reasonableness bill, in the Knesset last month.

Judicial Selection Committee High Court hearing postponed

The judiciary is set to suffer a shortage of 53 judges by the end of the year.

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023ByMICHAEL STARR
Justice Minister Yariv Levin (left) and Attorney General Gali Baharav Miara (right)

Yariv Levin rejects A-G representation at pivotal High Court hearing

The justice minister said that the attorney general’s legal position was in extreme contradiction to that of the government.

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023ByMICHAEL STARR
(L-R) Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara and Justice Minister Yariv Levin

Who judges Israel? How judges are selected has become a flashpoint

LEGAL AFFAIRS: The judicial selection committee and the future of democracy in Israel.

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023ByMICHAEL STARR
ONLY JUDGES who are in line with the political agenda of the Supreme Court are chosen to be judges and move up the ladder, argues one democracy researcher.

Elron asks to become Supreme Court president instead of Amit

The Supreme Court president is appointed by the Judicial Selection Committee but is typically done by seniority.

AUGUST 30, 2023ByMICHAEL STARR
Supreme Court Justice Yosef Elron is seen arriving for a court hearing in Jerusalem, on May 22, 2023.

Levin: A-G 'trampling right of representation' at judge selection hearing

Levin said that he was only informed by Baharav-Miara in a Thursday phone call that she would represent him.

AUGUST 30, 2023ByMICHAEL STARR
Justice Minister Yariv Levin holds a press conference at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem on January 4, 2023.

Don't change judicial selection process without opposition consensus - editorial

Following the national trauma caused by the passage of the reasonableness clause, can this country truly afford an even greater upheaval if the judicial selection process is changed?

AUGUST 8, 2023ByJPOST EDITORIAL
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen speaking at a memorial ceremony for Ze'ev Jabotinsky on Mount Herzl, in Jerusalem, on July 18, 2023.

Netanyahu violating conflict of interest over reform again - NGO to A-G

MQG argued that alterations to the Judicial Selection Committee would allow Netanyahu to appoint justices and a High Court president who might preside over any criminal appeal.

AUGUST 7, 2023ByMICHAEL STARR
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in the prime minister's office in Jerusalem, 30 July 2023.

After Netanyahu’s remarks, what’s left of the judicial reform? - analysis

The prime minister appeared to drop regulating legal advisers and restricting judicial review from the agenda. 

AUGUST 7, 2023ByMICHAEL STARR
JUSTICE MINISTER Yariv Levin speaks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the voting in the Knesset plenum on Monday.

PM seeks to calm markets in conversation with Bloomberg

Netanyahu dismissed fears of civil war and offered a hopeful message that the opposing sides “will mesh.”

AUGUST 6, 2023ByTROY O. FRITZHAND
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in the prime minister's office in Jerusalem, 30 July 2023.