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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 570

Constitution Law and Justice Committee

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends a meeting of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, April 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
At Knesset hearing, AG dismisses accusation of selective enforcement in leak cases
By Sam Sokol
Shin Bet admits to probing law enforcement, denies gathering intelligence on politicians in investigation of Kahanist elements infiltrating police
Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends a meeting of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, April 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 27, 2025, 8:55 pm
At Knesset hearing, AG dismisses accusation of selective enforcement in leak cases
Shin Bet admits to probing law enforcement, denies gathering intelligence on politicians in investigation of Kahanist elements infiltrating police
By Sam Sokol
Attorney General Gali Baharav Miara attends the funeral of former Judge Elisheva Barak-Ussoskin at the Kiryat Shaul Cemetery in Tel Aviv, December 11, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
April 9, 2025, 6:05 am
Coalition cancels vote to choose candidate for AG oversight panel, delaying her ouster
As government moves to fire Baharav-Miara, it fails to agree on compromise candidate for committee that plays key role in dismissal, with deliberation postponed by at least 2 weeks
By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff
Labor MK Gilad Kariv speaks during a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset, on March 17, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 19, 2025, 11:28 am
MK Kariv: Overhaul bill will leave judges ‘eternally fearful’ of their political bosses
Democrats’ Gilad Kariv warns legislation changing the judicial appointments process, which the coalition aims to quickly push through, will ‘totally politicize the justice system’
By Jeremy Sharon
Chairman of the Knesset Constitution Law and Justice Committee MK Simcha Rothman (left) leads a hearing for legislation to change the appointment process for the ombudsman for judges, February 18, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90); The Democrats MK Gilad Kariv attends a Knesset committee meeting on January 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 19, 2025, 2:33 am
Opposition MK: Coalition bill seeks ‘complete takeover’ of judicial complaints system
Deputy AG criticizes bill to change appointment process for judges’ ombudsman for ‘changing the rules of the game during the game’
By Jeremy Sharon
Chairman of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee MK Simcha Rothman argues with former justice minister Dan Meridor in a committee hearing, January 28, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 28, 2025, 11:20 pm
New judicial overhaul legislation raises ‘fundamental difficulties’ says Knesset lawyer
Constitution committee chair Rothman lambastes former justice minister for alleging politicization of judicial selection process, implies Oct. 7 was a result of judicial activism
By Jeremy Sharon
Amit Becher, the head of the Israel Bar Association, attends a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on December 10, 2024. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)
January 23, 2025, 2:56 pm
Coalition passes law limiting bar association’s control of its finances
Organization’s chief, opposition lawmakers denounce legislation as justice minister’s revenge for refusal to back his picks for Supreme Court, amid judicial overhaul fight
By ToI Staff
Screen capture from video of MK Likud MK Eliyahu Revivo during a meeting of the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee at the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 13, 2025. (Knesset)
January 13, 2025, 4:22 pm
In Knesset, Likud MK shouts at hostage’s father over deal: ‘Your son will be stuck in Gaza’
Eliyahu Revivo assails Yehuda Cohen, whose son Nimrod has been a Hamas captive since October 7, 2023, for accusing Netanyahu of ‘war crimes’ against Israelis and Palestinians
By ToI Staff
MK Simcha Rothman chairs a meeting of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, December 17, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
December 21, 2024, 12:07 pm
MK threatens that judges ‘playing hardball’ will lead to resumption of judicial overhaul
Simcha Rothman, a leader of push to expand government’s power by curbing legal system’s independence, also claims ‘consensus’ for firing AG and defends far-right riot at IDF base
By Sam Sokol
Jews attend a special prayer at the newly recognized Evyatar outpost, in the West Bank, July 7, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
December 18, 2024, 9:58 pm
MKs push bill to block West Bank territorial concessions, prevent Palestinian state
Proposal would ‘effectively prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state in any future arrangement,’ states the Knesset’s right-wing Land of Israel Caucus
By Sam Sokol
Israeli soldiers and police clash with far-right protesters, after they broke into the Beit Lid army base over the detention for questioning of military reservists who are suspected of abuse of a Palestinian terror suspect detained there, on July 29, 2024. (Oren Ziv / AFP)
December 17, 2024, 7:49 pm
Police, IDF absent from Knesset hearing on far-right attacks on detention facilities
Israel Police reportedly declines to show, IDF skips session due to miscommunication; meeting addresses riots at army bases after arrest of soldiers suspected of abusing detainee
By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff
Israel Bar Association leader Amit Becher during a meeting of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, November 25, 2024. (Noam Moskowitz, Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)
November 25, 2024, 5:47 pm
Bar Association head, MKs ousted from stormy hearing on bill linked to judiciary fight
Amit Becher removed from 2nd Knesset meet in days after calling Likud MK a ‘populist’; panel advances bill on reforming IBA seen as part of struggle over future Supreme Court picks
By Sam Sokol
Ofir Angrest, brother of hostage Matan Angrest, speaks at a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset, November 18, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 18, 2024, 3:46 pm
Hostage families barred from showing videos of loved ones in Knesset committee meeting
Committee chair Rothman tells relatives of Matan Angrest and Sasha Trufanov that clips must be approved ahead of time; Arbel Yehud’s father shares letter to captive daughter
By ToI Staff
This undated photo taken in winter 2023 and provided by Breaking the Silence, a whistleblower group of former Israeli soldiers, shows blindfolded Palestinians captured in the Gaza Strip in a detention facility on the Sde Teiman military base in southern Israel. (Breaking The Silence via AP)
July 16, 2024, 3:08 pm
Daily Briefing July 16: Day 284 – Must Israelis pay for Hamas terrorists’ legal defense?
Zman Yisrael editor Biranit Goren weighs in on PM’s shifting Oct. 7 narrative; legal reporter Jeremy Sharon on a controversial detention facility, indictment against a former MK
By ToI Staff
Danny Elgarat, whose brother Itzik Elgarat is held hostage in Gaza, is dragged out of a Knesset committee meeting on July 8, 2024 (Screen grab via Kan used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
July 9, 2024, 1:17 am
‘Shame!’: Knesset ushers drag brother of hostage out of meeting for interrupting
Committee chair Rothman, who ordered Danny Elgarat’s removal, says he was preventing other relatives of hostages from speaking out against deal currently on table
By ToI Staff and Sam Sokol
Members of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee debate a measure on funding local religious councils, July 2, 2024. (Dani Shem-Tov/Knesset)
July 2, 2024, 10:25 pm
New bill on funding religious councils raises concerns over revival of Rabbis Bill
‘They are basically asking for a blank check to appoint rabbis as they see fit,’ says Rabbi Seth Farber; Shas MK argues bill ‘not connected at all’ to the controversial legislation
By Sam Sokol
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