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Judicial Selection Committee

The Judicial Selection Committee meets for the first time in over 18 months in Jerusalem, on November 16, 2023. (GPO)
June 28, 2026, 10:55 pm
After 18-month hiatus, Judicial Selection Committee finally appoints new judges
Following legal pressure through the High Court on Justice Minister Levin, judges appointed to magistrate, family, traffic and youth courts
By Jeremy Sharon
Justice Minister Yariv Levin at a press conference at the Knesset, May 10, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 25, 2026, 9:46 pm
Judicial Selection Committee to convene on Sunday for first time in a year and a half
Panel will consider appointments to magistrates’, family and traffic courts, following legal pressure on Justice Minister Levin to appoint judges after 18-month refusal
By Jeremy Sharon
Justice Yechiel Kasher (left) explains his objections to a law passed by the coalition increasing political control over judicial appointments law, alongside Justice Gila Canfy Steinitz (right), June 21, 2026. (Screenshot/Judicial Authority/GPO)
June 22, 2026, 9:22 pm
Fiercely critical High Court seems poised to annul keystone judicial overhaul law
Conservative justices are joining their liberal colleagues in assailing the bid to politicize the appointment of judges, placing the government’s signature bid to constrain judiciary in jeopardy
By Jeremy Sharon
Supreme Court President Isaac Amit presides over a hearing for petitions demanding that a law politicizing the judicial appointments process be struck down, June 21, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 21, 2026, 8:23 pm
‘Regime change’: High Court tears into coalition bid to control judicial appointments
‘Judges will have political chip implanted in their body,’ warns court president Amit, but some conservative justices question wisdom of intervening
By Jeremy Sharon
Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut. in Jerusalem, November 3, 2025. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)
June 5, 2026, 5:36 pm
Ex-chief justice warns Israel sliding to ‘anarchy’ after Haredi riot at judge’s home
Esther Hayut says attacks on justice system constitute violation of democratic principles and rule of law, calls for return to ‘sane behavior’ as ‘our lives depend on it’
By ToI Staff
Justice Ofer Grosskopf presides over a hearing in the High Court of Justice, May 24, 2026. (Noam Revkin Fenton/ Flash90)
May 31, 2026, 9:02 pm
High Court orders recalcitrant justice minister to convene Judicial Selection Committee
In unanimous decision, judges reprimand Levin for claiming no time left for appointments before elections, when he has refused to appoint district court judges for 16 months
By Jeremy Sharon
Justice Ofer Grosskopf presides over a hearing in the High Court of Justice, May 24, 2026. (Noam Revkin Fenton/ Flash90)
May 24, 2026, 9:01 pm
High Court implores justice minister to appoint district court judges
Judge says he is ‘a bit saddened’ by Levin’s refusal to convene Judicial Selection Committee for 16 months despite mounting vacancies
By Jeremy Sharon
Justice Isaac Amit, the High Court's president, at the court in Jerusalem, April 15, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 19, 2026, 2:58 pm
Supreme Court justices accuse Levin of abusing power to block judicial appointments
Justice minister rapped for refusing to convene selection committee, ‘crassly ignoring’ need for district, magistrate court judges
By Jeremy Sharon
Justice Minister Yariv Levin at the annual Jerusalem Conference of the 'Besheva' group in Jerusalem, February 16, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 17, 2026, 4:02 pm
Levin says judge selection panel to meet, but no Supreme Court picks until his nominees okayed
Doubling down on refusal to have judicial appointments ‘forced’ on him, justice minister says only district judges to be tapped, announces reform in family, traffic, juvenile courts
By ToI Staff and Jeremy Sharon
Justice Minister Yariv Levin at the annual Jerusalem Conference of the 'Besheva' group in Jerusalem, February 16, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 17, 2026, 10:01 am
Levin refuses to say he’d obey court order to convene Judicial Selection Committee
High Court has ordered justice minister to explain refusal to convene the panel for past year, despite dozens of vacancies
By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff
Supreme Court justice Ofer Grosskopf arrives for a hearing on a petition to convene the Judicial Selection Committee at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, February 12, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
February 12, 2026, 8:01 pm
High Court justice says Levin’s refusal to appoint judges causing ‘murderers to be freed’
‘We are releasing murder defendants, that means something is not working,’ says Justice Alex Stein, as court presses justice minister to convene Judicial Selection Committee
By ToI Staff
Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, April 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
May 26, 2025, 3:43 pm
AG: ‘Not a warning, but reality – under cover of war, regime change has sped up greatly’
Baharav-Miara declares at Bar Association confab that governance changes already felt, joining Supreme Court head Amit in highlighting erosion of judicial independence
By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right), Justice Minister Yariv Levin (to his right) and other ministers in the Knesset plenum during a vote on a law to remake Israel's judicial appointments process, March 27, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
March 27, 2025, 12:11 pm
Knesset passes law greatly boosting political control over appointment of judges
Legislation changing composition of Judicial Selection Committee approved 67-1 after opposition lawmakers boycott final vote. ‘Collapse of the last brake on democracy,’ says Yesh Atid
By Sam Sokol
Religious Zionism MK Simcha Rothman, head of the Knesset's Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, introduces the law to remake Israel's Judicial Selection Committee, in the Knesset on March 26, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 26, 2025, 6:36 am
Knesset holds final votes on bill to take political control of appointing judges
Voting expected to continue until early Thursday morning due to objections to legislation, at heart of coalition’s judicial overhaul, that increasingly politicizes process of choosing justices
By Jeremy Sharon
Democrats MK Gilad Kariv is ejected from the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee following a vote on a highly controversial law changing Israel's judicial appointments process, March 19, 2025. (Noam Moskowitz, Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)
March 19, 2025, 4:32 pm
Bill to increase political control over judicial appointments approved by Knesset panel
Opposition chief Lapid urges mass protests against key judicial overhaul bill, that could become law next week, to limit judiciary’s influence over picks
By Jeremy Sharon
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