Constitutional Crisis

Clash between the branches of government: At the beginning of the week, the Finance Committee convened specifically to allow several fund transfers. Immediately afterward, petitions were filed, and the Supreme Court, via an order nisi, blocked the committee's activity. In an interview on the afternoon news program with Ido Tauber, constitutional and criminal law expert Yoram Sheftel explained...

The government's decision not to appear for the hearing is not the beginning of the crisis but one of its symptoms. It has stopped viewing the court as a restraining factor and has begun to see it as the one holding the steering wheel.