A lawmaker from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party calls for the Judicial Selection Committee to be convened.
“The committee to appoint judges must be convened,” Moshe Saada tells the Kan public broadcaster. “An arbitrary decision by a minister not to convene the committee to select judges will not be accepted and may be disqualified by the court.”
Justice Minister Yariv Levin, the architect of the judicial overhaul, has indicated he will hold off on convening the committee until he can legislate a change to its composition that will give the coalition greater control over the process of choosing judges.
The planned move is a central part of the government’s highly controversial judicial overhaul, which has sparked widespread opposition.
According to data from the judicial authority obtained by the Walla outlet, there are 21 judge positions that need to be filled, and by the end of the year, 22 judges and senior court registrars are expected to retire. There are a further 11 new judicial positions that have been approved, making a total of 54 court positions that need to be filled.
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