Supreme Court: In the last week, the most media coverage was given to the High Court of Justice ruling on the appointment of Shas Chairman Aryeh Deri to minister. Deri’s disqualification and the reform of the judicial system promoted by Minister Levin, posed and continue to pose many questions in the Israeli public regarding the judicial system. But it seems that not Only here we discuss the issue, the editorial of the important economic newspaper, the Wall Street Journal, also discusses the power that the court has in Israel.
“The Supreme Court in Israel has more power than the one in the United States, except that it also lacks democratic brakes” it says there. “While not subject to the constitution and completely exempt from the conditions of the right to stand and judge, the Israeli Supreme Court dismisses laws that it considers ‘unreasonable’, which covers roughly everything” the newspaper’s editorial (20.1) reads.
The Wall Street Journal, wrote about Deri Photo: shutterstock
They also referred to Deri’s disqualification
It is also written that “the Israeli court even has a veto on the appointment of new judges in contrast to the situation in the United States where the authority to appoint judges rests with the President and the Senate.” In relation to the Deri trial, it is written: “On Wednesday, the Supreme Court annulled the appointment of Aryeh Deri, leader of the Shas party, as a senior minister and cabinet member. The court could not vote on any law that reserved the removal of Aryeh Deri from the cabinet, but this did not prevent him from canceling the democratic process – a move similar to the beheading of the new government that marked the reform of the judicial system as its flagship issue.”