Levin meets with Edelstein in reported bid to ensure support for more overhaul bills

23 August 2023, 2:54 pm

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Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) with Yuli Edelstein (center) and Yariv Levin at the Likud party faction meeting at the Knesset on April 30, 2019 (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Justice Minister Yariv Levin meets with Likud MK Yuli Edelstein as part of what Hebrew media reports describe as an effort to ensure he has the support to advance additional bills in the government’s judicial overhaul program.

A number of anti-government demonstrators rally outside Edelstein’s home in Herzliya as the two talk inside.

Edelstein was one of several lawmakers in the ruling party who signaled they may not back further legislation without broad support, after the coalition passed the first law in the planned shakeup of the judiciary in a vote that was boycotted by the opposition and engendered protests and mass public opposition.

“This thing where any time there’s a compromise [on offer] someone in the coalition vetoes it or makes threats — that’s over,” Edelstein told Channel 12 news last month.