Daily Briefing Sept. 13: Special – Deep dive into unprecedented High Court hearing

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.

Our crack team of legal and political experts, Tal Schneider, Carrie Keller-Lynn and Jeremy Sharon, join host Amanda Borschel-Dan on today’s special extended episode.

Yesterday, much of Israel tuned in to the unprecedented 13-hour High Court hearing on the constitutionality of the coalition’s “reasonableness” law, an amendment to a Basic Law. In the marathon session, we heard from a variety of petitioners against the amendment, as well as the government itself.

The Declaration of Independence also had a starring role as the government’s representative, Ilan Bombach, called it an unrepresentative, “hastily written document.” Is that really the case?

There were several aspects of yesterday’s hearing that made it one for the history books. Today we dedicate the entire double episode to analyzing the key issues and highlighting important statements.

Discussed articles include:

Overhaul hearing sees court, gov’t in bitter fight for quasi-constitutional primacy

Government lawyer spurns Declaration of Independence at fateful High Court hearing

At historic 13-hour hearing, judges challenge assertion they can’t reject Basic Laws

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