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. 

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
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

Lowering the electoral threshold is not intended to bring new voices into the Knesset but only to assist those who are already there.

|ByASAF HEIMAN
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

"I try to intervene and act in many areas in many different ways, sometimes overtly and sometimes not. That is the role of the president."

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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

It is worth questioning why the Tax Authority largely abandoned the original committee’s recommendations without broader consultation.

|ByBOAZ FEINBERG

New Rothman proposal does not solve 'essential legal difficulties,' deputy A-G says

The changes proposed by Rothman to the bill were met with criticism from both coalition and opposition MKS.

MARCH 20, 2023ByELIAV BREUER, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu looks toward MK Simcha Rothman as they confer with Justice Minister Yariv Levin in the Knesset last week. Levin and Rothman have been emphasizing the larger public welfare, says the writer

Should Israel heed German warnings about a failing democracy? - analysis

Netanyahu has rejected the idea that judicial reform would harm democracy. But should he listen to German warnings, and lessons of the past?

MARCH 19, 2023ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Platform 17 (Gleis 17), the memorial to those who were deported to the death camps by Deutsche Reichsbahn trains in 1941-1945, at Berlin-Grunewald train station in Berlin, Germany March 16, 2023.

Coalition leaders meet to discuss ‘softening’ of judicial reform

Rothman introduces drastic Judicial Selection Committee changes.

MARCH 19, 2023ByMICHAEL STARR, ELIAV BREUER
MK Simcha Rothman, Head of the Constitution Committee, at a committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem on March 19, 2023.

Judicial reform protests will end with blood on the street, organizer warns

Protest organizer Eran Schwartz spoke about the concern of deliberate, organized attacks being carried out against judicial reform protesters.

MARCH 19, 2023By103FM VIA MAARIV ONLINE
Judicial reform supporters wave Likud flags and hold signs reading "The leftist minority will not determine Israel" and "Leftist traitors" at a protest on Saturday night, March 18, 2023.

Bank of Israel Gov warns: Judicial reform could weaken bank independence

Yaron warned that investors may begin to withdraw money and invest it elsewhere as Israel's government pushes ahead with judicial reform.

MARCH 15, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF, REUTERS
Governor of the Bank of Israel Amir Yaron speaks during a press conference at the Bank of Israel offices in Jerusalem, on January 2, 2022.

Entebbe Op. veterans join airport protest as Netanyahu flies to Germany

Police have given out approximately 30 tickets for blocking emergency routes at the airport, according to the Israel Police Spokesperson's Unit. 

MARCH 15, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Israelis protest against the Israeli government's planned judicial overhaul, at the Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, March 9, 2023.

Netanyahu: Opposition is interested in anarchy, not democracy

The prime minister accused opponents of judicial reform of reducing the debate to "absurd levels."

MARCH 12, 2023ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a weekly cabinet meeting, March 12, 2023.

Israel could learn a thing or two from history of US Constitution - opinion

Not unlike Israel, the US emerged from the War of Independence in a precarious political and security situation.

MARCH 12, 2023ByYEHUDA WEINRAUB
THE US Supreme Court building in Washington: As many in Israel believe today, the Anti-Federalists, who opposed the constitution, objected to governorship by the court and feared such power granted to the court could render it an absolute ruler.

Israel's fight is not for democracy but for cultural dominance - opinion

For over 100 years, the Zionist Left has been opposing the Zionist Right and struggling to assure it cannot effectively influence the country's social or cultural makeup.

MARCH 12, 2023ByYISRAEL MEDAD
Thousands of Israeli protesters rally against Israeli Goverment's judicial overhaul bills in the coastal city of Tel Aviv on March 04, 2023.

'My way or the highway' is not a protest, it is anarchy - opinion

Protests are important, but many ask, what is the goal? What are you willing to compromise? What are your positive suggestions?

MARCH 12, 2023ByMOSHE DANN
WALKING ON the blocked Ayalon Highway during a demonstration against planned judicial overhaul, Tel Aviv, March 4.