Daily Briefing Sept. 11: What to know about Tuesday’s judiciary vs executive faceoff

Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 15-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world, from Sunday through Thursday.

Legal reporter Jeremy Sharon and Palestinian affairs reporter Gianluca Pacchiani join host Amanda Borschel-Dan in today’s episode.

Tomorrow, petitions against the coalition’s first piece of legislation limiting the power of the judiciary will be heard by the High Court. Sharon briefs us on what we should know about the so-called reasonableness law that was passed in July.

During the Fatah party’s Revolutionary Council on August 26, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas repeated a number of antisemitic canards he has made over the years. What did he say and why?

Director of the Israel Courts Administration Judge Michael Spitzer said recently that Israel has nearly three times fewer judges per capita than the average in the European Union, although it has more than four times as many lawyers. Sharon explores the current situation and notes that it will only be aggravated as long as the Judicial Selection Committee doesn’t meet.

Sondos Alhoot is one of the few Arab Israelis to have taken the stage at the weekly protests in Tel Aviv against the government’s judicial overhaul. We hear about her and her motivations for joining the protest movement.

Discussed articles include:

Judiciary vs executive: Israel’s branches of government set for unprecedented clash

Abbas spokesman claims PA chief was quoting academics when he used antisemitic tropes

Abbas: Ashkenazi Jews ‘are not Semites,’ Hitler killed them for their ‘social role’

Case burden on courts ‘unparalleled’ worldwide, says Courts Administration director

The woman who teaches Jewish Israelis how to protest in Arabic

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