May 6. (EUROPE PRESS) –
Members of the Israeli government coalition have assured this Friday that the judicial reform promoted by the country’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, “is dead.”
Netanyahu has decided not to go ahead with the reform due to political pressure from the United States, although the Minister of Justice, Yariv Levin, has no intention of resigning, as they have explained to the Shishi Bekan 11 News chain.
Separately, the prime minister is considering organizing a debate to allow the death penalty for terrorists in an attempt to appease the national security minister, the far-right Itamar Ben Gvir, whose discontent with the government’s “weak response” to the latest clashes in the Gaza Strip could endanger the coalition.
This law was already approved in a preliminary reading at the beginning of March, but the Ministerial Committee for Legislation decided that it should not go ahead due to the opposition of Israel’s attorney general, Gali Baharav-Miara, who demanded that the government discuss the consequences of the law. .
Gvir has already announced that he will boycott the votes in Parliament and has asked to participate in decision-making on security matters.
Hundreds of thousands of people have demonstrated in Israel in recent weeks against this reform, arguing that it is an attack on Israel’s balance of powers, fundamentally the foundations on which democracy is based, since it grants Parliament a unusual influence to overturn judicial decisions.
