Levin says wants to finish ‘first phase’ of judicial transformation by Passover recess

By Carrie Keller-Lynn 20 February 2023, 9:59 pm

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Carrie Keller-Lynn is a former political and legal correspondent for The Times of Israel

Justice Minister Yariv Levin attends the Knesset debate on the coalition's first judicial reform bill, February 20, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Despite expressing a willingness to engage in dialogue with the opposition in the event that the first reading of the government’s judicial shakeup plan passes later this evening, as it is expected to do, Justice Minister Yariv Levin confirms that he hopes to wrap up the “first phase” by Knesset’s April break.

Levin says he wants to pass “the first phase by the end of the seating,” in under six weeks, “and then the second phase” afterwards, in a spontaneous response to a Yisrael Beytenu MK speaking on the Knesset floor