Israel’s Supreme Court has delayed the first of three pivotal hearings on the legality of the judicial overhaul, spearheaded by the far-right government of Benjamin Netanyahu, after the country’s attorney general expressed staunch opposition to the plan.
Before the Court delayed the hearing for 12 days, petitions challenging Levin’s refusal were set to be heard on Thursday. Under normal circumstances, experts said, Levin’s position would have been represented by the attorney general.
“This is all highly exceptional,” said Amichai Cohen, a constitutional law professor and senior fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute, a Jerusalem think tank. Until the current government took office, he said, the attorney general and government rarely took separate positions. “Usually there is a dialogue in which a unified position is adopted,” he said.In a filing to the court on Monday, Baharav-Miara said Levin’s actions had led to numerous vacancies.
Netanyahu’s coalition — dominated by religious and ultranationalist parties — says the country’s non-elected judges wield too much power and must be reined in. Critics of the overhaul, who represent a wide swath of Israeli society, say the plan will destroy the country’s system of checks and balances and concentrate power in the hands of Netanyahu and his allies.
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