Top Court Overturns Netanyahu’s Judicial Oversight Law
- Ruling sets back government plans for populist shift
- Netanyahu’s Likud condemns decision taken in wartime
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Israel’s Supreme Court overturned a highly contested law aimed at weakening the justices’ own power in a loss to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition.
The court, sitting with all 15 justices for the first time ever, struck down by a vote of 8 to 7 a law passed by Parliament in July that would have barred judges from voiding government decisions as “unreasonable.”