Gantz calls for halt to overhaul, formation of bipartisan working group to formulate plans

In an address to the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee on Monday morning, National Unity leader MK Benny Gantz calls on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to halt his government’s judicial overhaul legislation and create a bipartisan working group to formulate legal and judicial reforms.

Gantz says, “If we do not find a way to preserve the law in the State of Israel and let the rule of law be what guides our life in the State of Israel – then we will not be a democratic state.”

The former defense minister says the current system of selecting judges in which all branches of government have a weighty influence over the process led to appointments by agreement.

“What this new legislation does is to dismantle this system and in its place establishes a tyranny of the majority, and this is not democracy,” says Gantz.