A narrow majority of Israel’s Supreme Court has ruled that a controversial law, which Netanyahu’s strongly conservative government passed last summer, is invalid. The specific law was supposed to limit the court’s supervision of the country’s government and ministers. Judicial reform The law is part of a much-discussed judicial reform that Netanyahu and his supporters have wanted to introduce, but which has caused great division in the country. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reform proposal led to massive protests in Israel. Photo: Ariel Schalit / AP Many feared that the judicial reform would weaken the independence of the judiciary and thus democracy in Israel. Tens of thousands of Israelis took part in weekly mass demonstrations for months. The protests have nevertheless subsided following the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October, and the subsequent war on the Gaza Strip. Barely a majority The Supreme Court’s handling of the case came after a complaint from human rights and civil rights groups. The 15 Supreme Court judges have been considering the law since September. A narrow majority of the judges, seven out of eight, prevailed with their opposition to the law. The decision had already been leaked to journalists, and observers believe that the announcement may have come now to avoid further leaks, writes The Jerusalem Post. – The demand to let the law apply to those who are at the top of the pyramid concerns the central point of our regulations, that everyone is equal before the law, says one of the judges who voted to invalidate the law, Ofer Grosskopf, according to the Jerusalem Post.
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