Protests rock Israel as it passes curbs on some Supreme Court powers

Protests rock Israel as it passes curbs on some Supreme Court powers

Israel’s parliament on Monday ratified the first bill of a judicial overhaul sought by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after last-gasp compromise efforts collapsed and failed to ease a constitutional crisis convulsing the country for months.

The amendment limiting the Supreme Court’s powers 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!”

 

Protests rock Israel as it passes curbs on some Supreme Court powers

Protests rock Israel as it passes curbs on some Supreme Court powers