The political system and the legal system are in turmoil following the publication of the full plan of Yariv Levin, the Minister of Justice, to reform the system. On the right they congratulate, on the left they threaten, and in the middle stand the elected officials and judges. Ayelet Shaked, former Minister of Justice and bystander, commented on the reforms in an interview with “Globes”.
Shaked: “I didn’t make major legislative changes just because I didn’t have a majority”
Shaked spoke about her relationship with the current Minister of Justice: “Yariv and I have been talking together for many, many years about the need to make changes in the justice system; he is a serious person and a democrat and as straight as a ruler, and let’s give him a chance. We have not yet seen all the balances that will still be there.” ,
She told why she did not promote reforms of his magnitude. “When I was Minister of Justice, I didn’t make major legislative changes just because I didn’t have a majority for it. But I managed to change the Supreme Court, and I proved that it can be done within the existing committee for selecting judges.”
Rothman with Levin Photo: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
Aharon Barak met me and said that he could live with the cancellation of the reason for reasonableness
“At the time, as Minister of Justice, I distributed a memorandum of a basic law for legislation with a peak increase of 61. People simply do not fully understand what it means,” Ibhana Shaked said. “Yes, it changes the dialogue between the Knesset and the judges and gives the last word to the Knesset, but only for a period of 4 years. After that, a new Knesset has to enact the same law that the Supreme Court rejected. This is not the end of the world and absolutely not the end of democracy.”
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“Judge Aharon Barak himself met me at one of the conferences, and told me that if we eliminated the reason for reasonableness, he could live with it, ‘because I have the proportionality.’ He told me what I always say. In the end, what matters is the identity of the judges and their set of values, Because they can take any law and make plasticine out of it,” said the former interior minister. “If not because of the reasonableness, then because they will say that it is proportionate and it is not. The reason of reasonableness should be as Judge Noam Solberg wrote – it will not apply to the elected officials, but will apply to the clerks. It is not possible for a National Insurance official to make an illogical decision, and it will not be possible dispute it. I hope Levin’s opponent will pay attention to this essential matter.”
Shaked: The government will survive for at least four years
At the end of the interview, Shaked referred to the continuation of her political path, and bet on the length of her life. “I cannot estimate when the next time will be, but in my opinion this government will last at least 4 years. It is a homogeneous government, no one has an interest in dismantling it, and everyone has been given a role far beyond their power and one that they would not receive in any other constellation. In the meantime, I see an advantage To look at things from the outside, and also in the fact that I will have a few years of a more sane life and in which I will earn money. This is not a bad thing.”
(Netanyahu cites Lapid and Sa’ar demanding corrections in the judicial system and stands by Yariv Levin)