Legal reforms

High Court of Justice nullifies govt’s dismissal of attorney-general, Baharav-Miara to remain

The court ruled that the decision was procedurally flawed and legally untenable, and that both the revision of the term-ending process and the subsequent dismissal were void. 

Attorney general Gali Baharav-Miara at a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset, in the Israeli parliament on September 30, 2025.
PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG addresses the Knesset plenum at the opening of the winter session on October 20, 2025.

Israel needs real reform, not a lower electoral threshold - opinion

President Isaac Herzog shows a screenshot from the recent Hamas video of hostage Evyatar David, at a news conference during a visit to Riga, Latvia last week.

Herzog on gov't decisions: 'I intervene when possible,' but can't blindly react to everything

 THE ISRAEL Tax Authority is apparently interpreting ‘mail’ to include email and downloads from the Internet.

The dramatic changes proposed to the definition of Israeli, foreign residents - opinion


Israeli judicial reform bill will split into two, Yariv Levin confirms

The coalition will likely first focus on changing the makeup of the judicial appointments committee and limiting the High Court of Justice's power to strike down laws, according to a report.

 Israel's Justice Minister Yariv Levin holds a press conference at the Knesset, the Israeli Knesset in Jerusalem, on January 4, 2023.

Basic Law for basic laws: Solving Israel's judicial reform dispute - opinion

Such a plan to solve the judicial crisis seizes the moral high ground by creating a system that is not only just but simple and stable.

 OPPOSITION LEADER Yair Lapid has proposed that President Isaac Herzog set up a commission to examine the matter of judicial reform.

Letters to the Editor February 6, 2023: Marius and Sulla

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

 Letters

Judicial reform could push hi-tech out of Israel - opinion

The legacy of today’s government will not only be the gutting of Israeli democracy, but the stunting of the hi-tech economy.

 WORKERS FROM the hi-tech sector protest against the proposed changes to the legal system, in Tel Aviv, on Tuesday.

AIPAC should speak up against Israel's judicial reform - opinion

As the main pro-Israel organization in the US, AIPAC should take a proactive stance and voice its concerns about judicial reform.

 PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, in 2018.

How far will the Israeli economic sector's opposition to judicial reform go?

ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: The fear is that if investors are unsure about Israel’s protection of the rule of law, they’ll be much more reluctant to invest.

 HI-TECH SECTOR workers hold signs saying ‘No democracy, no hi-tech’ as they demonstrate against proposed judicial reforms in Tel Aviv, last week.

Hi-tech success is Israel's success - It belongs to all its citizens

To hi-tech people: don't threaten the state with what also belongs to the state. The public also has a fundamental share in the great success built here - the Israeli hi-tech.

 Dr. Esther Luzzato

Blinken gave Netanyahu a ladder for his gov't, will he take it?

US-ISRAEL AFFAIRS: Antony Blinken has gotten involved in Israel's internal judicial reform debate.

 US SECRETARY OF State Antony Blinken and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leave the podium after their joint press conference on Monday, in Jerusalem.

The Israeli Left's 'economic tsunami' claim is just another trick - opinion

The Left is running a broad-scale scare campaign about the judicial reform plans. This is an old trick that has been pulled by the Israeli Left repeatedly.

 THEN-INCOMING Bank of Israel governor Jacob Frenkel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold a news conference in the Knesset, in 2013.

Blinken's judicial reform comments are a US-Israel turning point - opinion

What gives the visit the potential to be a defining moment is that this is not the way the US tends to talk about Israel.

 US SECRETARY of State Antony Blinken and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet with the media on Monday, in Jerusalem.