judicial overhaul

Israel’s top court heard appeals on Thursday against a law restricting how a prime minister can be removed from office, as current Premier Benjamin Netanyahu faces protests against the government’s judicial overhaul. The hearing got…
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Israel’s Supreme Court on Tuesday opened the first case to look at the legality of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contentious judicial overhaul – deepening a showdown with the far-right government that has bitterly divided the nation…
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Members of Israel’s Arab minority fear they will bear the brunt of the hard-right government’s judicial overhaul, but have remained largely on the margins of a raging debate over the sweeping changes. Israelis have rallied weekly since…
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Thousands of Israelis demonstrated on Saturday in Tel Aviv and other cities against the hard-right government’s judicial overhaul opponents see as a threat to democracy. The reform package has split the nation and triggered one of the…
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The Supreme Court on Monday said all 15 judges in a historic first would take part in a hearing on arguments against a law Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s religious-nationalist coalition passed as part of an overhaul of the judiciary.…
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Thousands of Israelis took to the streets Saturday to protest the government’s decision to forge ahead with its judicial reform package despite widespread opposition. Demonstrators waving Israeli flags rallied in the country’s commercial…
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Hundreds of Israeli reservists marched in Tel Aviv on Wednesday threatening to refuse their volunteer service if the government presses ahead with its controversial plan to curb the power of the Supreme Court. The drive by Prime Minister…
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Israeli protesters blocked highways and gathered outside Tel Aviv’s stock exchange and military headquarters on Tuesday in the latest countrywide demonstration against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned judicial overhaul. The…
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