Protesters march in Tel Aviv after Israel’s parliament voted into law a contested curb on some Supreme Court powers submitted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s government.
Daily Archives: 24. Juli 2023
Watch live: Mass protests in Israel after controversial legal reform law is passed
Protest in Jerusalem after Israeli lawmakers on Monday approved a key portion of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s divisive plan to reshape the country’s justice system
Israel‘s main union to discuss declaring general strike
The head of Israel‘s main public sector union said on Monday he would meet with other union officials to discuss the possibility…
Israel Medical Association announces 24-hour strike over reasonableness law
The Israel Medical Association has announced it will hold a 24-hour strike starting tomorrow, in response to the passage of the reasonableness law.
Protest movement: Netanyahu is Israel’s Putin. There’s nothing to talk about
“There is nothing to talk about with someone who decided to turn himself into [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and Israel into a dictatorship,” the protest statement continues, “we will fight Netanyahu to the end so that Israel remains a liberal democracy.”
Top enforcement official tells TV: Country lost democracy due to PM’s trial
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A top law enforcement official tells Channel 12 he believes the government’s aim in eliminating the reasonableness standard is now to appoint “a general prosecutor who is ‘one of ours.‘”
“It’s all about who will close [Netanyahu’s] criminal case,” the unnamed official says.
“This is what the country has lost its democracy for. Awful.”
Israel‘s Democratic Crisis: Can Israel‘s Supreme Court Disqualify the First Law of Netanyahu‘s Judicial Coup?
Until now, the High Court has never invalidated any Basic Law. Only “regular laws” that violate Basic Laws have been disqualified. Therefore, striking down the legislation passed Monday would be an unprecedented move.
Israel Bar Association petitioning Supreme Court to cancel reasonableness law if passed in Knesset
Bechar also announced that the Bar Association may cease providing services to its members as an act of protest against the “anti-democratic legislative process.” Bechar said that “a desire to harm the ability of the Court’s use of the reasonableness standard is a serious danger to Israeli democracy. The public has unequivocally directed us to act against attacks on democracy, and that is exactly what we intend to do.”
Mossad chief reportedly vows to be ‘on right side,’ in case of constitutional crisis
Mossad chief David Barnea met today with employees at the spy agency opposed to the judicial overhaul to discuss the potential fallout, according to Channel 12’s investigate news program “Uvda.”
“If the situation reaches a constitutional crisis I’ll be on the right side, but right now isn’t the time,” Barnea is quoted as telling the group.
Israel faces an ongoing constitutional crisis — without a constitution
In practice, constitutions can: achieve near-unalterable status, as in the United States; be frequently rewritten, as in many other countries in the Western hemisphere; be used to justify authoritarian forms of rule; or come to be entirely disregarded.
Israel, Britain and New Zealand are outliers, as they do not have constitutions, said Hanna Lerner, the author of “Making Constitutions in Deeply Divided Societies.” The United Kingdom and New Zealand rely on common law, bodies of legal thinking and precedent developed over centuries, which serve a de facto constitutional role.
WATCH: Dramatic Footage Emerges Of Jerusalem Protests Over Israel‘s Right-Wing Judicial Reforms
Protests continued to roil Jerusalem over the Israeli government‘s new judicial reforms.
Police battle protesters blocking roads in Jerusalem after Knesset approves bill limiting Supreme Court
Tens of thousands of protesters are filling the Jerusalem streets in front of the Knesset building and blocked Begin highway, the main thoroughfare through Jerusalem, late Monday afternoon after the Knesset passed the first legislation as part of its judicial overhaul push, a law limiting the oversight power of the Supreme Court over the executive and legislative branches.
Coalition passes 1st judicial overhaul law, limiting review of government decisions
Despite 29 weeks of unprecedented protests, all 64 coalition members back ‘reasonableness’ bill in final vote after 30 hours of plenum discussion; entire opposition walks out
Last votes on ‘reasonableness’ bill to begin soon as 26-hour filibuster nears end
After the second reading, the Knesset is expected to quickly proceed to the third reading, which is the decisive vote.
Opposition parties decided this morning to boycott the final vote, which may be expected in the late afternoon or early evening.
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In photos: The battle at the Knesset
As Israeli lawmakers prepare to vote on the judicial overhaul plans backed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, demonstrators are blocking the entrance to parliament, and security forces are using water cannons to disperse them
Protesters face off with police at the Israeli parliament
Protesters chained themselves to fences, linked arms and lay down in roads to block access to the Knesset, Israel’s parliament in central Jerusalem.
Police dragged prone demonstrators from the pavement and deployed water cannons to clear routes to the compound.
Business forum, tech companies to strike ahead of final votes on reasonableness law
The forum, which includes mall chain Big Shopping Centers, Azrieli Group companies and banking institutions, called on other companies and organizations to “join the emergency step that we were compelled to take, to bring the unilateral legislation to a halt, and enter into talks [on a compromise],” according to a statement cited by Hebrew-language media on Sunday night.
Intense talks as reform bill heads for final vote; mega firms announce strike
The Histadrut labor federation proposed a scaled-down version of the bill but has chosen not to call a general strike in the public sector, saying it will the talks play themselves out until noon, at which point a decision would be made.
Yesh Atid MK defends Lapid over last-ditch talks: Israel in ‘a catastrophic situation’
Yesh Atid MK Karine Elharrar defends the decision by opposition leader Yair Lapid’s party to take part in talks to restrict the scope of the “reasonableness” bill and pause the rest of the judicial overhaul as further negotiations are held.
“There are moments in life when you can’t only make political calculations. Someone needs to be the adult in the room,” she tells the Ynet news site.
Protester hurt outside Knesset after being struck in head by police water cannon
A protester near the Knesset is injured after being struck in the head by a police water cannon.
There is no immediate word on the demonstrator’s condition as an ambulance is called to the scene.
Police deploy water cannon against anti-overhaul protesters blocking access to Knesset
Police deploy water cannons in Jerusalem to clear protesters blocking roads leading to the Knesset, where lawmakers are deliberating the coalition’s contentious “reasonableness” bill ahead of the final votes.
Sánchez’s tricky road to victory after shock Spanish election result
Sánchez’s Socialists and his preferred partners, Yolanda Díaz’s left-wing Sumar coalition, control 153 seats in parliament. Although the left-wing allies are unlikely to secure the backing of the 176 MPs needed for Sánchez to be confirmed as prime minister the first time the new parliament votes on the matter, they could make a bid during the second round of voting, in which the candidate to head the new government must receive more yeas than nays.
Now what? National election leaves Spain in a labyrinth
To be voted in as the new prime minister at the investiture vote, an absolute majority (176) is needed in the first vote or a simple majority (more votes for than against) in the second.