Netanyahu vows to move ahead with parts of judicial overhaul ‘this week’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Sunday morning that his government would begin this week to unilaterally advance elements of its judicial overhaul plan, days after the opposition said it was freezing negotiations.

“What was proven last week is that [Benny] Gantz and [Yair] Lapid have been playing a game,” Netanyahu said in comments at the start of the cabinet meeting in Jerusalem. “It was a misrepresentation of so-called negotiations.”

Netanyahu said that the government “gave them a month, and then another month, and another, and their representatives did not agree to even the most minimal understanding [in compromise negotiations brokered by President Isaac Herzog]. Their intention was just to buy time, to waste time.” READ MORE