Legal reforms

Netanyahu defense challenges Mandelblit over police questioning of key state witness

The exchanges at the Jerusalem District Court focused on how closely Mandelblit supervised the early inquiries into Netanyahu and whether investigators stayed within the limits he set.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
Former attorney-general Avichai Mandelblit testifies in Netanyahu trial, October 22, 2026.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Knesset vote on a bill to freeze arrests of haredi draft evaders, in Jerusalem, July 14, 2026

Knesset votes to freeze arrests of ultra-Orthodox draft evaders amid IDF manpower crisis

Bill passes 58-54 despite legal warnings, IDF opposition • Netanyahu heckled by opposition lawmakers shouting 'disgrace' before leaving plenum ahead of the vote

|ByKESHET NEEV
Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, Shurat HaDin president: ‘If all the democratic states could wage financial war against terror regimes, they could eliminate evil from the world.’

Where terror meets the rule of law

Led by Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, Shurat Hadin is using lawsuits and international legal pressure to hold terror groups and their sponsors accountable

|ByALAN ROSENBAUM, IN COOPERATION WITH SHURAT HADIN
High Court Justice; illustrative.

Israel legal gatekeepers must be careful not to overreach - opinion

At a time when the government has declared war on the legal establishment and the rule of law, this system must indeed act with resolve – but also with judgment and restraint. 

|BySHUKI FRIEDMAN

Why does Israel's gov't think the Supreme Court is too powerful? - opinion

Returning Israel's Supreme Court to the pre-Aharon Barak juridical culture of restraint is a necessary process.

JANUARY 26, 2023ByDAVID M. WEINBERG
SUPREME COURT CHIEF Justice Esther Hayut and other justices arrive at a court hearing in Jerusalem.

Israel's judicial reforms weaken democracy - opinion

The time has arrived to devote some months to drafting and adopting a written constitution, which is the only democratic way for Israel to reform.

JANUARY 25, 2023ByROBERT SILVERMAN
PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu sits alongside sacked cabinet minister Arye Deri in the Knesset, on Monday. In Israel, the coalition controls the legislature and executive, thus the need to keep its hands off judicial appointments, says the writer.

Judicial reforms could make Israel a 'haven for corruption' - MK

MK Orit Farkash-Hacohen said the judicial reforms are worrying due to the lack of professionalism and how it threatens to destabilize Israel's checks and balances.

JANUARY 24, 2023ByAARON REICH
National Unity MK Orit Farkash-Hacohen (L) is seen speaking with Zvika Klein at The Jerusalem Post's Democracy 2023 conference, on January 24, 2023.

State attorneys threaten labor strike over judicial reform

The Black Robes Protest group, itself comprised of private attorneys, came out in support of the State Attorney organization's announcement.

JANUARY 24, 2023ByMICHAEL STARR
Israeli lawyers affiliated with the Black Robes come to protest judicial reforms.

Israel's justice minister, chief justice need to talk judicial reforms - opinion

If I could, I would ask Justice Minister Yariv Levin and Supreme Court President Esther Hayut to sit together in the same room and talk.

JANUARY 24, 2023ByODED REVIVI
PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu and Supreme Court President Esther Hayut attend a ceremony in Jerusalem, in 2019.

Israel judicial reforms: Who are the Black Robes, what is their goal? -interview

The Black Robes were founded in 2019 to protest the first proposal of an Israeli Override Clause. Now they're back to protest Yariv Levin's judicial reforms.

JANUARY 23, 2023ByMICHAEL STARR
Who are the Black Robes, protesting Israel's judicial reforms? (Illustrative).

Rothman 'trampling' protocol on Israeli judicial reform law, MKs accuse

Rothman put out a law proposal late last week, but this did not give the committee's legal advisor Gur Bligh time to write his opinion on it.

JANUARY 23, 2023ByELIAV BREUER
MK Simcha Rotman, Head of the Constitution Committee leads a committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem, on January 18, 2023

Hardening or softening of judicial reforms? Rothman presents changes to plan

Israeli government legal adviser Gur Bligh said that further documents would be represented on the reform in the coming week.

JANUARY 18, 2023ByMICHAEL STARR
MK Simcha Rothman attends a committee meeting at the Knesset, January 17, 2023.

Netanyahu: November elections were 'the mother of all protests'

Netanyahu's comment came in response to the protest in Tel Aviv on Saturday night of approximately 80,000 people.

JANUARY 15, 2023ByELIAV BREUER
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a press conference with Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich (unseen) at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, on January 11, 2023.