Israeli Justice Minister Yariv Levin attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem on July 9, 2023. (Credit: AFP)
From the moment he entered the Knesset in 2009, Israel’s Deputy Prime Minister Yariv Levin pledged to overturn the judicial system initiated by Israeli jurist who served as president of the Supreme Court, Aharon Barak.From 1995 to 2006, Barak, now Israel’s most respected jurist, built an institution empowered to annul abusive laws, counterbalance the government and Parliament and protect individual rights in a country that lacks a written constitution.“A genuine revolution of the judicial system must be carried out,” the newly elected hardline Likud lawmaker said at the time. Meanwhile... The stakes of Netanyahu's hurried visit to Washington Thirteen years later, after holding several short-lived ministerial roles and serving as Knesset speaker, he is fulfilling that promise.Appointed in December 2022 as justice minister and deputy...
From the moment he entered the Knesset in 2009, Israel’s Deputy Prime Minister Yariv Levin pledged to overturn the judicial system initiated by Israeli jurist who served as president of the Supreme Court, Aharon Barak.From 1995 to 2006, Barak, now Israel’s most respected jurist, built an institution empowered to annul abusive laws, counterbalance the government and Parliament and protect individual rights in a country that lacks a written constitution.“A genuine revolution of the judicial system must be carried out,” the newly elected hardline Likud lawmaker said at the time. Meanwhile... The stakes of Netanyahu's hurried visit to Washington Thirteen years later, after holding several short-lived ministerial roles and serving as Knesset speaker, he is fulfilling that promise.Appointed in December 2022 as justice minister and...
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