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President Yitzhak Herzog met with Communications Minister Shlomo Karai and Justice Minister Yariv Levin, in an attempt to influence their reforms. This was reported today (Tuesday) in the evening news at Kaan 11. Herzog asked Levin to soften the reform in the judicial system and suggested holding a joint dialogue.
President Herzog asked Ministers Levin and Kerei to soften the reforms in the Ministries of Justice and Communications, and even offered to mediate@shemeshmicha #The evening news pic.twitter.com/odVLmd3lOI
— here news (@kann_news) January 10, 2023
Karai is expected to present an extensive reform in the field of communications in two weeks, Herzog is also trying to influence this issue. A Likud official said in response: Herzog offered himself to mediate, at the moment we don’t need it. The president’s house said: meetings are not taken into account.
Yesterday it was announced in the evening news at Khan 11 that the debates on the reform will begin in the Knesset next week under the name “Zion in the Tafda trial”. In the recording of a conversation between Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Constitution Committee Chairman Simcha Rothman, which was played on the evening news at Khan 11, it was revealed that the first step in the reform is to make the position of legal advisers to the government non-binding.
Levin’s judicial reform includes four moves that he wishes to promote in his office: changing the method of selecting judges, regulating the disqualification of laws enacted by the Knesset and the superseding clause, abolishing the reason for reasonableness, and abolishing the subordination of legal advisers to an unelected rank.
Justice Minister Levin responds to retired Supreme President Aharon Barak: “He brought disaster on Israel, his way contradicts democracy. In his opinion, the judges are superior to the people’s elected officials who are supposed to reflect what the public wants.”@TaliMoreno_ #NewSaturday pic.twitter.com/4JizyKZxH2
— here news (@kann_news) January 7, 2023
In an interview with Tali Moreno on Shabbat News, Levin said regarding the reform that “we all know what the courts are like, what a drag. We all experience the unbearable bureaucracy where no government official is willing to take responsibility and take action because he immediately receives a restraining order and such and such an order.”
The Minister of Justice stated that the reforms he is proposing will return the Supreme Court to its great days and strengthen trust in it. According to him, “Today’s government has no power. All power is in the hands of the judge, and he decides what is proportionate and what is reasonable. This is not democracy.”