An expanded panel of 11 Supreme Court justices convened on Thursday to hear petitions against the appointment of ultra-Orthodox Shas party leader Aryeh Deri as a top minister in the Netanyahu government. Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara had opposed the appointment, arguing that it “exceeds in the extreme the boundaries of reasonableness” due to Deri’s two criminal convictions, the second one just a year ago.
The Supreme Court session took place less than 24 hours after newly appointed Justice Minister Yariv Levin presented an overhaul of Israel’s legal system.
