National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir says he’s told fellow coalition heads they need to continue with their plan to shake up the judiciary, in a meeting that just concluded at the Prime Minister’s Office.
“I said we need to continue with the reform. We can’t content ourselves with something cosmetic,” the far-right leader says at the opening of Otzma Yehudit’s Knesset faction meeting.
Yesterday, the High Court of Justice issued a conditional order to block the implementation of a Ben Gvir-backed law to give himself unprecedented power over the police, giving the state 90 days to respond.
Ben Gvir says the court’s ruling is “a message” that “you, the politicians, can continue talking; we, the Supreme Court, will continue running the country.”
“I want an independent judiciary, but I don’t want the court to become the legislature,” he adds. “At the end of the day, we were elected to lead.”
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