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The new Israeli government wasted no time in initiating an all-out attack on the independence of the judiciary. It is promoting in full speed two parallel proposals to reform the judiciary in the hope that at least one of them, or a hybrid of both will be codified. The government claims that its proposed judicial reform will promote a more democratic and representative judiciary. Yet, a careful analysis of its proposed reform suggests that the government intends to fully politicize the judiciary. It will change the process of appointment to the Judicial Selection Committee, placing control in the hands of the government. Simultaneously, it will neutralize the ability of the opposition in the Knesset and the professional elites (the Justices and the Bar Association) to protect judicial independence from governmental takeover. CC BY-SA 4.0 Weill, Rivka Democratic Backsliding Judicial appointment judicial independence Rule of Law 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/war-over-israels-judicial-independence/ 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20230125-201849-0 230125 10.17176/20230125-201849-0 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)