How The Israeli Supreme Court Works

Israel is ruled by the 15 member Supreme Court who can throw out any law they like even if there is no "standing" just because they feel like it.

During the past 30 years, the Supreme Court has carried out a judicial takeover, with its powers ever-expanding, without any legal or constitutional mandate. Judicial rule is conversely proportional to an ever-narrowing ability of Israel’s citizens to rule themselves.

...under the leadership of its former president, Aharon Barak, seized the opportunity to crown itself emperor.

Soon after the passing of the Basic Law, Barak announced a “Constitutional Revolution” in which the court was empowered to strike down laws. The opening shot in the Supreme Court’s power grab flew under the radar. The infamous 1995 Mizrahi Bank decision, in which the court first reviewed Knesset legislation, was issued only a few days after the Rabin assassination, while the country was still in shock and mourning.

The Supreme Court has abandoned the need for “standing,” which limits petitions to those specifically harmed by laws or administrative actions. This has turned the court into an alternative policy-making forum. The court is not bound by justiciability, a doctrine that limits it to strictly legal questions.

The court can throw out any law, ruling, decree or restriction it wants to throw out. It is bound by no restrictions. It has even intervened in military decisions. It has taken over executive and legislative powers.

The court would then become the all-powerful creator, interpreter and master of the Israeli constitution. This would effectively end Israel’s citizens’ ability to determine the constitutional system under which they live, due to the court’s constant veto power. There is no example of any Western democratic country where the court has the final say on a yet-undrafted complete constitution.

The court is all powerful in Israel and dominates all matters both large and small.

The court regularly issues rulings on security, foreign policy, immigration and economics. Despite nearly 30 years of calls for change, conservative judicial appointments have not reined in activism. The judges’ veto in the Judicial Selection Committee guarantees that jurists who threaten the prevailing paradigm will never be appointed.

Supreme Court Judges Are Chosen By Other Supreme Court Judges

If you want to sit on the 15 member bench you better get the approval of 3 members.

With an automatic majority on the committee that selects new justices, sitting justices choose their successors from their like-minded colleagues on the Left and justices can only be removed by their own cronies. Justices legislate from the bench based on what their nearly always Leftist gut deems to be ‘’reasonable”. Staunchly Leftist Justices have thrown open the court’s doors to anyone with a chip on their shoulder regardless of whether or not they have standing in the matter at hand.

The way it works is that the Knesset elects the President (currently a guy named Isaac) and he nominates potential Prime Ministers (currently a guy named Benjamin). The PM must create a coalition large enough to win a majority in the Knesset. Then he becomes PM.

The President (Isaac) also nominates judges to sit on the Supreme Court. They go to the 9 member Judicial Selection Committee. They must get 7 out of 9 to vote for them. Three Supreme Court members sit on the Judicial Selection Committee. A judge can only win a seat on the Israeli Supreme Court if the Israeli Supreme Court agrees to let him/ her/ xer into their little club.

If 3 SC veto the vote, then the judge can't join their club.

The Israeli Supreme Court leans very left and only lets in judges who will follow their program. No one else will be allowed in.

If the US ran this way, then that would mean John Roberts, Sotomayor and Kagan could block any judge tried to put on the Supreme Court.

The judicial reforms that have set Israel on fire would strip the Supreme Court of its seats on the Judicial Selection Committee. They would no longer get to decide who was allowed into their tiny club. The reforms would also strip the court of its ability to overrule any law or decision it likes. If it threw out a law, a simple majority in the Knesset could overrule the Supreme Court's decision.

Since the Israeli Supreme Court is a powerful tool for many leftists the reforms are seen as a direct attack on them. This is how they've been pouring out against it. Even members of the Israeli military elite are said to have joined in the protests.

They say that stripping the Supreme Court of its power to decide who sits on the court and taking away its power to throw out any law it wants will destroy democracy in Israel. They are threatening that if the reforms pass that there will be civil war and violence.