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Israel’s parliament on Monday ratified the first bill of a judicial overhaul sought by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the face of opposition from the Biden administration.
The ratification of the bill, which limits the Israeli Supreme Court’s power to block government decisions, came a day after President Joe Biden warned Israel against pursuing the legislation.
“It looks like the current judicial reform proposal is becoming more divisive, not less,” Biden said Sunday. “Given the range of threats and challenges confronting Israel right now, it doesn’t make sense for Israeli leaders to rush this.”
The amendment to a law enabling the Supreme Court to void some government decisions if it deemed them “unreasonable” passed by a 64-to-0 vote after opposition lawmakers abandoned the session in protest, some of them shouting: “For shame!”
More deadlock loomed, however.
