reasonableness law

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to CNN about Saudi normalization, September 23, 2023 (CNN screenshot)

PM: Saudi deal likely but time is short; MBS a ‘visionary’; coalition would back accord

Netanyahu tells US TV there are ‘major issues’ on enrichment; regarding concessions to Palestinians, says far-right partners’ ‘talk a talk’ but ’eminently sensible’ on decisions

September 23, 2023, 10:23 am

PM: Saudi deal likely but time is short; MBS a ‘visionary’; coalition would back accord

Netanyahu tells US TV there are ‘major issues’ on enrichment; regarding concessions to Palestinians, says far-right partners’ ‘talk a talk’ but ’eminently sensible’ on decisions

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Defense Minister Yoav Gallant speaks at an awards ceremony for outstanding officers, at the IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv, September 3, 2023. (Shahar Yorman/ Defense Ministry

September 21, 2023, 10:52 pm

Gallant: Undermining Declaration of Independence harms Israel’s moral standing

Defense minister appears to rebuke stance taken by government’s lawyer Ilan Bombach, who told High Court founding document was hastily written, lacks legal authority

By ToI Staff

A statue depicting Israel's first prime minister David Ben-Gurion that was set on fire on the beach in Tel Aviv, September 16, 2023 (Flash90)

September 21, 2023, 9:33 pm

Court orders release of suspect in torching of Ben Gurion statue to house arrest

Tel Aviv judge gives police 24 hours to appeal, criticizes their handling of probe into incident, says they were influenced by media attention

By ToI Staff

Germany's Ambassador to Israel Steffen Seibert at the High Court of Justice hearing on the coalition's reasonableness law, September 12, 2023. (Twitter video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

September 18, 2023, 6:59 pm

Germany rebuffs Israeli anger after envoy attends High Court ‘reasonableness’ hearing

Jerusalem says behavior unacceptable, but Berlin retorts actions in line with diplomatic role; Scholz: ‘He has clear principles. Everyone knows that, including in Israel’

By Lazar Berman

September 16, 2023, 11:57 am

Iconic Ben-Gurion headstand statue on Tel Aviv beach badly burned in attack

Homeless man arrested; security increased at first PM’s home, which laments ‘increasing vitriol’ toward Israel’s founders days after gov’t lawyer rapped Declaration of Independence

By ToI Staff

Supreme Court President Esther Hayut and all 14 other judges hear petitions against the 'reasonableness law' at the court in Jerusalem on September 12, 2023. (DEBBIE HILL / POOL / AFP)

September 13, 2023, 4:49 pm

With Israel’s ethos at stake, 13-hour court hearing proves riveting, fateful TV drama

Rothman came to insult the judges, the coalition’s lawyer Bombach trashed the Declaration of Independence, and several on the bench intimated they may indeed intervene on Basic Law

By David Horovitz

Supreme Court President Esther Hayut and other justices at a High Court hearing on the 'reasonableness law,' at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, September 12, 2023. Judge Noam Sohlberg is at left. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

September 13, 2023, 3:12 pm

Threats from Smotrich et al. did not frighten the High Court justices

At historic hearing, 15 judges fought for the institution that they represent and for Israeli democracy, leaving Netanyahu in no doubt of the direction this saga will take

By Shalom Yerushalmi

Attorney Ilan Bombach, representing the Israeli government, arrives at a court hearing on petitions against the government's reasonableness law, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, September 12, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

September 13, 2023, 5:59 am

Government lawyer spurns Declaration of Independence at fateful High Court hearing

Drawing ire during reasonableness law adjudication for saying ‘hasty’ document was endorsed by unelected signatories, attorney elaborates that it has value but no legal authority

By ToI Staff

September 13, 2023, 1:12 am

Overhaul hearing sees court, gov’t in bitter fight for quasi-constitutional primacy

While appearing to defend their oversight authority, president and other judges don’t seem certain that damage posed by reasonableness legislation can justify annulling a Basic Law

By Jeremy Sharon

All 15 High Court justices preside over a court hearing on petitions against the government's 'reasonableness bill' at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, September 12, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

September 12, 2023, 2:01 pm

At historic 13-hour hearing, judges challenge assertion they can’t reject Basic Laws

Justices question claims of supreme Knesset authority, but also indicate reasonableness law won’t be voided unless it deals ‘mortal blow’ to democracy; petitioners insist it does

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

Right-wing Israelis, one carrying a sign showing Supreme Court President Esther Hayut and the slogan “The elite takes over,” attend a rally in support of the government's judicial overhaul, outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, on September 7, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

September 12, 2023, 12:58 pm

Neither coalition nor High Court respects Basic Laws. Urgently needed: A constitution

An immediate constitutional crisis is unlikely, but no enduring reform or end to the impasse is possible without deep trust — which no one in our system of government now enjoys

By Haviv Rettig Gur

All 15 of Israel's Supreme Court justices appear for the first time in the country's history to look at the legality of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's "reasonableness" law, enacted in July, in Jerusalem, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. (Debbie Hill/Pool Photo via AP)

September 12, 2023, 6:55 am

Israel on edge as Supreme Court convenes for historic, crucial overhaul hearing

All 15 justices in court to hear petitions against reasonableness law; Levin calls hearing ‘a mortal blow to democracy’ as Lapid labels the legislation ‘deviant and thuggish’

By ToI Staff

President of the Supreme Court Esther Hayut and Supreme Court justices are seen during a court hearing on August 3, 2023.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

September 12, 2023, 12:52 am

Security for justices said boosted ahead of high-stakes judicial overhaul hearing

Protection upped for 15 justices who will hear petitions against ‘reasonableness’ law; some judges reportedly spending the night away from home as precaution

By ToI Staff

President of the Supreme Court Esther Hayut and Supreme Court justices at the High Court in Jerusalem hear petitions against the so-called 'Tiberias law,' on July 30, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

September 11, 2023, 5:17 pm

Court set for fateful ‘reasonableness’ law hearing as constitutional showdown looms

Petitioners claim legislation undermines democracy; government insists court has no right to intervene. High Court justices may decide time is not ripe for such a charged decision

By Jeremy Sharon

Protesters against the judicial overhaul scuffle with police outside the home of Justice Minister Yariv Levin in Modiin on September 11, 2023 (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

September 11, 2023, 10:18 am

Anti-overhaul protesters and police scuffle at Levin’s home, day before key hearing

Demonstrators try to block justice minister’s car; large rally to be held later in the day outside Supreme Court ahead of Tuesday session on petitions against reasonableness law

By ToI Staff