# Justice Minister Levin unveils a judicial-overhaul plan under Netanyahu

Date: 2023

## The fact

On 4 January 2023 Justice Minister [Yariv Levin](/people/yariv-levin) presented a plan to curb the Supreme Court’s reasonableness doctrine, change judicial appointments, and limit attorney-general override, with [Netanyahu](/people/benjamin-netanyahu) as prime minister of the new coalition.

## Context

Mass protests followed. Coalition partners including [Smotrich](/people/bezalel-smotrich) and Ben-Gvir sat. Neighbouring reasonableness enactment in July is a child instrument. He did not sit as a High Court justice.

The 24 July 2023 reasonableness vote is neighbouring. The 2019 indictment is a different legal file.

The Prime Minister of Israel chairs the cabinet, is the political principal of the IDF, and can table Knesset bills. He does not write a Hamas military order, an ICC judgment, a US presidential proclamation, or a UN Security Council resolution.

## Evidence and sources

Ministry of Justice of Israel carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [democratic resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience) and [judicial independence](/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion): a completed plan to weaken court review is a dated constitutional-conflict instrument.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 4 January 2023 Levin presentation of the overhaul under Netanyahu’s cabinet, independently reported.

Not established: that every later protest injury was this hour, or that the High Court was thereby abolished.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

He chaired the coalition that made the plan government policy. The Knesset later voted child bills.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Justice Minister Levin unveils a judicial-overhaul plan under Netanyahu, not a later speech about Justice Minister Levin unveils a judicial-overhaul plan under Netanyahu.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Justice Minister Levin unveils a judicial-overhaul plan under Netanyahu on 2023-01-04 is not a licence to treat every later Ministry of Justice of Israel communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Justice Minister Levin unveils a judicial-overhaul plan under Netanyahu into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Levin presented. He chaired the coalition that made the plan government policy. The Knesset later voted child bills. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Benjamin Netanyahu: https://factrail.ai/people/benjamin-netanyahu

## Drivers

- Judicial independence erosion (court capture): https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion
- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience
- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization

## Sources

- https://www.timesofisrael.com/justice-minister-unveils-plan-to-shackle-the-high-court-overhaul-israels-judiciary/
- https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-justice-minister-unveils-judicial-overhaul-plan-2023-01-04/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/il-judicial-overhaul-2023