National Unity head indicates party could bolt judicial compromise talks if coalition takes both the seats allocated to MKs on Judicial Selection Committee
By CARRIE KELLER-LYNN, TOI 29 May 2023,
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at Likud’s Knesset faction meeting, May 29, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his Likud party on Monday that his government’s temporarily suspended plans for a radical shakeup of the judiciary are “not dead,” according to statements leaked from Likud’s internal Knesset faction meeting and broadcast on Monday evening.
“Don’t believe what you read, including in Yedioth Ahronoth, especially in Yedioth Ahronoth,” Netanyahu was heard saying, in reference to a report in that Hebrew newspaper that he had said the planned judicial overhaul legislation was dead. “There are lots of things, lots of moves. I don’t want to get into the details,” he said.
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