Cabinet ministers authorize a controversial bill to curtail the powers of the High Court of Justice.
Despite disagreements within the coalition, the Ministerial Committee for Legislation votes in favor of the Jewish Home bill which would give 61 MKs the ability to overturn a Supreme Court decision to strike down Knesset legislation as unconstitutional.
Speaking at the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday morning, Netanyahu says that he would have preferred to further delay the bill in order to reach agreement among all coalition parties, but would nonetheless allow the vote to take place and not use Likud’s veto to block it.
Coalition party Kulanu had vowed to oppose the bill but its representative on the committee, Construction Minsiter Yoav Galant, votes in favor.
The bill will now face a vote in the Knesset.
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