Lapid vows to overturn ‘rotten’ revamp of Judicial Selection Committee

By Sam Sokol 19 March 2025, 11:52 am

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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 head and leader of the Yesh Atid party MK Yair Lapid leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on March 17, 2025 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Opposition Leader Yair Lapid promises to overturn the coalition’s still-unpassed legislation revamping the panel that selects judges as soon as the next government takes office, condemning the bill as an effort to subordinate the judicial system to elected politicians.

“Let it be clear: The wording of the law passed today by the Constitution Committee to change the composition of the Judicial Selection Committee is not a compromise, not a correction, and was not reached through dialogue. It is the most extreme, most violent, and most rotten wording there is,” he says.

“This is a law that says only one thing — the judges will be in the pockets of the politicians. The politicians will appoint them, control them, and make sure they do what they are told. We will stop this. In the first week of the next government, this violent and extortionate law will be repealed!”