nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20221119-001730-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 221118s2022||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20221119-001730-0 doi eng 342 23 Weill, Rivka Author aut The Tangible and Imminent Threat to Israel’s Judicial Independence Weill, Rivka Verfassungsblog 2022-11-18 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier A fierce debate is raging these days about the democratic implications of the Israeli 2022 elections to the twenty-fifth Knesset (legislature). Yet, those who read the platform of the Religious Zionist Party—as expressed in the program "Law and Justice-Reform of the Judicial System," signed by the members of the Knesset, Bezalel Smotrich and Simcha Rothman—cannot ignore the real and imminent danger to Israel’s judicial independence. The top item on their agenda, published during their election campaign, is changing the judicial appointment process. CC BY-SA 4.0 Democratic Backsliding Judicial appointment judicial independence Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-tangible-and-imminent-threat-to-israels-judicial-independence/ raw object