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Nominees named for Wednesday’s vote on 2nd candidate for judicial selection panel
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleCarrie Keller-Lynn is a former political and legal correspondent for The Times of Israel
Wednesday’s vote to name a second lawmaker to the panel that picks Israel’s judges will take place at 12 p.m. in the Knesset plenum, according to a Knesset spokesperson.
Otzma Yehudit MK Yitzhak Kroizer is expected to nab the spot, in line with pledges made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party in December.
This second closed-door ballot follows a tumultuous first round of voting in June, when coalition infighting resulted in one opposition member, Karine Elharrar, being elected to the panel while the second of the two seats allotted to MKs remained vacant.
Opposition parties have said that convening the Judicial Selection Committee is a condition for resuming the frozen judicial reform negotiations, although the National Unity party has softened that stance in recent days.
There are three nominees besides Kroizer: Religious Zionism MK Moshe Solomon and two opposition Yesh Atid party lawmakers, Ron Katz and Idan Roll.
By tradition, one coalition MK and one opposition MK sit on the Judicial Selection Committee.
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