Netanyahu says Jewish Home ‘burying’ Supreme Court override bill

Netanyahu lashes Jewish Home party for sticking to its guns on the bill that would severely limit the Supreme Court’s ability to strike down legislation on constitutional grounds.

“At the moment Jewish Home is pushing the override clause into the garbage can,” he tells members of his Likud faction, according to leaks to Hebrew media. Netanyahu is apparently referring to the fact that Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon has made plain that his party will not vote in favor of the law in its current form.

While Jewish Home is insisting on a version of the bill that would allow the Knesset to reenact a law struck down by the Supreme Court if 61 MKs vote to do so, there have been suggestions that the law could pass if that number were to be raised.

“The only way to pass the override clause is by reaching agreements within the coalition,” the prime minister says. “Anyone who pushes without arriving at agreements is burying the override clause.”