Israel’s top court has struck down a contentious law to overhaul the judiciary passed by Benjamin Netanyahu’s far right government, in a move that could reopen bitter divisions in the country over the changes.
The law was the first part of a broader push by Netanyahu’s coalition to rein in the judiciary, which ignited months of mass protests last year and threatened to trigger a constitutional crisis until the government put its plans on ice after the outbreak of war with Hamas.
In an 8-7 ruling on Monday by Israel’s supreme court, judges said they had taken their decision because of the law’s “severe and unprecedented harm to the core character of the state of Israel as a democratic country”.
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