It was ‘unfortunate’ that the vote in the Israeli parliament on a bill to limit the powers of the country’s top court took place with a slim majority, US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said
The amendment limiting the Supreme Court's powers to void some government decisions if it deemed them "unreasonable" passed by a 64-to-0 vote after opposition lawmakers abandoned the session in protest, some of them shouting: "For shame!"
Critics say the changes will open the door to abuses of power by removing effective checks on the executive's authority. The planned changes have caused months of unprecedented nationwide protests and stirred concern among allies abroad for Israel's democratic health. "We all agree that Israel must remain a strong democracy, that it must continue protecting individual rights for everyone, that it will not become a state of , that the courts will remain independent," said Netanyahu, who hadIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shows Justice Minister Yariv Levin his phone as lawmakers gather at the Knesset plenum to vote on a bill that would limit some Supreme Court power, in Jerusalem July 24, 2023.
In Tel Aviv, horse-mounted police tried to disperse a crowd on the main highway, where protesters lit small fires.
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