Lapid charges Levin’s judicial overhaul process led to Oct. 7 massacre: ‘Without the rule of law, we will not have a state’

By Sam Sokol 8 September 2024, 5:02 pm

4 Edit

Sam Sokol is a former political correspondent at The Times of Israel. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"

Opposition Leader Yair Lapid leads a Yesh Atid faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on September 4, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Claiming that Yariv Levin’s push to overhaul the judiciary led to Hamas’s brutal October 7 attack, Opposition Leader Yair Lapid demands that the justice minister convene the Judicial Selection Committee at once.

“Yariv Levin’s coup d’état led the country to the disaster of October 7. He must convene the committee immediately. Without the rule of law, we will not have a state,” Lapid declares in a statement shortly after the High Court of Justice orders Levin to convene the Judicial Selection Committee and select a new president for the Supreme Court.

Levin slammed the court’s ruling, declaring that he would boycott the next president of the Supreme Court because, he contends, the next president will be elected in an “illegal manner.”