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Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi (left) and Justice Minister Yariv Levin (right) attend a Knesset plenum session, January 8, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Jeremy Sharon
Analysis
Jeremy Sharon
Government defiance of High Court paves way for future disregard of the law
Ministers' declaration against High Court ruling on a media regulation body may have little legal impact, but symbolically 'crosses the Rubicon' on the concept of the rule of law
Left: Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends a Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting in Jerusalem, April 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); center: President Isaac Herzog at the president's residence in Jerusalem, March 12, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, February 26, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
AG: Government pledge to disobey High Court undermines core principles of rule of law
By ToI Staff
Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi (left) and Justice Minister Yariv Levin (right) attend a Knesset plenum session, January 8, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 5, 2026, 7:16 pm
In first, government vows to disobey High Court ruling, setting up constitutional crisis
Cabinet declares ruling allowing a key broadcast media regulator to operate without a quorum to be ‘unlawful’; opposition accuses government of ‘violating rule of law’
By Jeremy Sharon
L to R: Justice Minister Yariv Levin, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Israel Katz, and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir are seen in the Knesset in Jerusalem, ahead of a failed vote on MK Ayman Odeh's proposed expulsion from the body. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 30, 2026, 1:03 pm
Ministers, coalition MKs push pardon for PM after judges urge dropping of key charge
Levin, Eliyahu, Katz and others again call for clemency or for dismissal of all charges, as judges repeat recommendation that prosecutors withdraw Netanyahu’s bribery count
By ToI Staff
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
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
Justice Minister Yariv Levin in the Knesset plenum, (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 11, 2026, 3:06 am
Knesset passes law giving justice minister control of internal police investigations
MKs vote 43-39 in favor of legislation, which the attorney general has said will remove the barrier between politicians and law enforcement and undermine department’s independence
By Jeremy Sharon
Supreme Court President Isaac Amit presides over a hearing on petitions regarding women’s prayer at the Western Wall, February 17, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
June 9, 2026, 6:45 pm
After 17-month obstruction by Levin, Supreme Court president’s appointment to be formally announced
High Court ruling comes after justice minister refused to complete procedural steps announcing Isaac Amit’s appointment, and a decision on Sunday that the justice minister acted unlawfully
By Jeremy Sharon
Supreme Court President Isaac Amit (left) speaks to Justice Minister Yariv Levin at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on April 10, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
June 7, 2026, 9:16 pm
In scathing rebuke, High Court rules Levin must cooperate with Court President Amit
Justices call justice minister’s arguments against legitimacy of Amit’s appointments ‘spurious’; Levin sarcastically responds he’ll work with court president ‘when there is one’
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
Supreme Court President Isaac Amit (left) and Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara speak at the Israel Bar Association, June 1, 2026. (Courtesy Israel Bar Association)
June 1, 2026, 3:18 pm
Under attack by coalition, Supreme Court chief and AG warn the government is dismantling democracy
Amit says ground being laid to disobey court rulings, warns public trust in elections may be undermined. Baharav-Miara: Government racing to ‘eliminate democratic institutions’
By Jeremy Sharon
Shas leader Aryeh Deri in the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 27, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 1, 2026, 1:29 pm
Internal ultra-Orthodox politics are driving an unprecedented assault on the AG
Facing intense pressure from constituents over the failed draft exemption law, Shas chairman Aryeh Deri and right-wing allies are inciting a rebellion against law enforcement
By Shalom Yerushalmi
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
L-R: Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee chairman Simcha Rothman, Justice Minister Yariv Levin and Yisrael Beytenu MK Yulia Malinovsky in the Knesset, May 10, 2026. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)
May 11, 2026, 11:52 am
‘A modern Eichmann trial’: Lawmakers tout imminent passage of law to try Oct. 7 perpetrators
Yariv Levin asserts the bill will not only serve justice but ensure the historical record of the massacre; around 300 invaders captured on October 7 are held in Israeli prisons
By Sam Sokol
Justice Minister Yariv Levin attends a special plenum session in honor of visiting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Knesset in Jerusalem on February 25, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 7, 2026, 7:07 pm
Levin says he’ll let Supreme Court ‘disappear’ if his justice picks are not selected
Justice minister’s comments come as deadline to submit timeline for convening Judicial Selection Committee is set to expire; office won’t say whether he intends to comply with it
By Jeremy Sharon
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