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Amichai Cohen Yuval Shany
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The Israeli President’s Plan to End the Constitutional Crisis
The current political crisis in Israel started on Jan. 4, when Minister of Justice Yariv Levin presented the government’s radical plans to overhaul Israel’s judicial…
The Current State of Play in Israel’s Constitutional Showdown
Since Jan. 11, 2023 the Knesset Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee has held, almost on a daily basis, hearings dedicated to the judicial reform package…
The End of ‘Reasonable’ Governance in Israel?
The era of “reasonable” government in Israel, defined by a reliance on the “reasonableness doctrine” as a grounds for judicial review of executive branch decisions,…
No More Legal “Gatekeepers”? Plans to Downgrade the Status of Government Legal Advisors in Israel
Downgrading the independence of government legal advisors is not among the highest-profile proposals to reform the Israeli legal system being advanced by Israel’s new right-wing…
No More Legal ‘Gatekeepers’? Plans to Downgrade the Status of Government Legal Advisers in Israel
Downgrading the independence of government legal advisers is not among the highest-profile proposals to reform the Israeli legal system being advanced by Israel’s new right-wing…
The Fight Over Judicial Appointments in Israel
Editor’s note: click here for part one in this series on the sweeping legal and judicial reforms proposed by Israel’s new government, and here for…
Reversing the “Constitutional Revolution”: The Israeli Government’s Plan to Undermine the Supreme Court’s Judicial Review of Legislation
Editor’s note: The first article in this series described Israel’s “constitutional revolution” of the 1990s, which resulted in the Supreme Court exercising powers of judicial…
The New Israeli Government’s “Constitutional Law Reforms”: Why now? What do they mean? And what will happen next?
Following the Nov. 1, 2022, Israeli elections, the right-wing bloc of parties headed by the Likud and Benjamin Netanyahu—which won, jointly, 64 out of 120…
Israel’s Supreme Court Issues Regressive Judgment on West Bank Deportations
On May 4, the Israeli Supreme Court, sitting as a High Court of Justice (HCJ), issued its long-awaited judgment in Abu Aram v. Minister of…