The Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee approves a second, technical aspect of the amendment to Basic Law: The Judiciary determining how one coalition MK and one opposition MK will be selected to sit on the Judicial Selection Committee.
The legislation is approved nine votes to seven.
The vote takes place amid further chaos and fierce protest from opposition MKs, who chant “Shame” at committee chairman MK Simcha Rothman.
Rothman orders several MKs to be ejected from the room and they are manhandled out of the committee by Knesset orderlies.
Under the legislation, there will be nine members of the committee: five ministers and MKs from the government and coalition; one MK from the opposition; the Supreme Court president; and two retired judges to be appointed by the justice minister, who serves as committee chair, in agreement with the Supreme Court president.
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