Judicial Selection Committee

Full Supreme Court to hear challenge to Judicial Selection Committee law

Israel’s Supreme Court escalates its review of the Judicial Selection overhaul, assigning the case to all 11 justices and delaying hearings to June.

View of the empty courtroom at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on July 13, 2025.
 Tamir Pardo, Former Director of Mossad attends a rally against the decision of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to fire head of Shin Bat Ronen Bar, at Habima Square, March 18, 2025.

Israel has opened 'gates of hell' on hostages with return to war, former Mossad chief says

 Benjamin Netanyahu in front of the ICC headquarters (illustrative).

Ex-deputy chief justice: ICC, UN clapping over gov’t tearing down judicial independence

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ministers in the Knesset plenum during the vote on the bill to amend the makeup of Israel's Judicial selection committee. March 27, 2025.

Knesset approves dramatic judicial selection committee bill


Israel's Knesset to hold Judicial Selection Committee vote on June 14

The committee will be required to appoint a woman to one of each of the roles, including justices, Knesset members, ministers, and Bar Association members.

 The Law Committee votes on changes to the Judicial Selection Committee.

Judicial Selection Committee emerging as Israel's next political battle

Judicial reform negotiations are set to resume as the June 15 deadline to form the Judicial Selection Committee nears.

 MK Simcha Rotman, Head of the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee seen during a committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem on May 29, 2023.

Lapid: Choose Israeli judge selection committee members next month

The Yesh Atid leader said that the selections for Israel's Judicial Selection Committee should include the seat that had traditionally been reserved for the opposition.

 Opposition leader Yair Lapid speaks at a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony in Yad Mordechai, April 17, 2023.

Political appointments ruin Israel's civil service: The Alef case

Political appointments have a cancerous effect on the civil service. In many instances, incompetent people are appointed and the civil service becomes mediocre.

 President Isaac Herzog presides over a ceremony for swearing in new judges at the President’s Residence on May 9, 2022.

Are Israel's pro-democracy protests fruitful or futile?

Protests send a strong signal regarding people’s conviction because they require more effort and sacrifice than other means of publicly expressing support for democracy.

 An aerial view shows protesters demonstrating against the government’s judicial overhaul plan in Tel Aviv on April 29.

Israel's opposition to lose seat on judge selection panel without deal - Fuchs

Israel's coalition will not control the committee, which will be formed based on the existing makeup * MK Ze'ev Elkin – 'a victory for the opposition'

 PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG leads the first negotiation meeting over judicial overhaul compromises with representatives from Likud, National Unity, Yesh Atid and Labor, at the President’s Residence.

Netanyahu's Israeli judicial reform is already here - opinion

The judges Israel already has are human beings. And their attitudes, predilections, concerns and decisions are affected by experience, perception and milieu

 SUPREME COURT President Esther Hayut attends a conference in Haifa, in January. Would the Supreme Court nullify Knesset legislation as readily today as it did six months ago? It should be clear to all that it will not, says the writer.

Judicial reforms negotiations focus on Judicial Selection Committee

A six-hour session on judicial reform negotiations at Jerusalem's Waldorf Astoria Hotel was held in "good spirits"

 PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG leads the first negotiation meeting over judicial overhaul compromises with representatives from Likud, National Unity, Yesh Atid and Labor, at the President’s Residence.

Israeli asks ChatGPT to write 'South Park' episode on judicial reform crisis

The plot of South Park episode parodying the judicial reform crisis features with Cartman as Benjamin Netanyahu, Butters as Sara Netanyahu and Kenny as Bezalel Smotrich.

 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the popular US comedy series South Park.

Checks and balances: The never-ending battle in Israeli democracy - opinion

Israel’s current political leadership in its hostility to what it perceives as too liberal a court is attempting to increase its power by eliminating the perpetual tension.

 THEN-PRESIDENT Reuven Rivlin votes in the Knesset election, in Jerusalem, in March 2021. Voting in Israel is solely limited to a single ballot cast for a political party, not an individual.