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May 5, 2023

Why the Outsized Power of the Israeli Supreme Court Must Be Curbed

Question of values are distinct from questions of law.

Amid protests and counterprotests, hysterical statements from politicians, and hyperbolic newspaper articles, the debate over judicial reform in Israel also elicited some careful and serious argument—some of which could be found in Mosaic. Yechiel Oren-Harush carefully lays out the case for restraining the Jewish’s state’s supreme court, defends the proposed constitutional changes, and responds to the arguments of these reforms’ opponents:

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