Supreme Court to livestream session on petition against post of alternate PM

The Supreme Court says it will livestream Tuesday’s deliberations on a petition questioning the constitutionality of the recently created post of alternate prime minister.

The session will begin at 9 a.m. on Tuesday.

The Likud party has argued the authority of the High Court of Justice to weigh the constitutionality of the post.

The Movement for Quality Government in Israel, which filed the petition, has argued that the amendment of a quasi-constitutional Basic Law to create the new office constituted a “fundamental alteration of the regime system in Israel, which can even be regarded as a change of the ruling system.”

The court began a pilot program this year to broadcast court discussions, and previously provided live coverage of a hearing on phone tracking at the start of the pandemic and on Netanyahu’s right to form a government following the last election, despite his indictment in three corruption cases.