Netanyahu government tests limits of Israel's justice system

This is unprecedented. On July 5, the Israeli government said that it rejected a Supreme Court ruling concerning the work of the media. Although decisions by the country’s highest judicial authority have been disregarded in the past, as in the case of the mandatory conscription of ultra-Orthodox Jews, the official announcement nonetheless triggered a wave of backlash in Israel.Some fear a constitutional crisis, just months before the general elections scheduled to take place by the end of October, and as Benjamin Netanyahu’s government — the most right-wing in Israel’s history — seeks to push through a judicial reform since it came to power in late 2022. Dig deeper Months before Israel's parliamentary elections, the Joint Arab List faces an uncertain future Others even see it as a troubling omen regarding respect for the election...