# The Knesset passes the reasonableness-clause amendment Date: 2023 ## The fact On 24 July 2023 the Knesset enacted a basic-law amendment abolishing the courts’ ‘reasonableness’ review of some government decisions, a core piece of the judicial overhaul. [Netanyahu](/people/benjamin-netanyahu)’s coalition voted it through. A later High Court strike-down is a neighbouring 2024 row, not this copy. ## Context Protests and reserve-duty threats sat. [Levin](/people/yariv-levin) and coalition whips ran the floor. Neighbouring January launch is the parent. He did not sit as speaker. 4 January 2023 is the parent launch. The January 2024 High Court judgment is a later instrument. 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 Knesset carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is justice and [democratic resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience): a completed curb on reasonableness review is a dated check-and-balance contraction. ## What is established and what is not Established: 24 July 2023 Knesset enactment of the reasonableness amendment, independently reported. 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. The Knesset voted. Courts later reviewed.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies The Knesset passes the reasonableness-clause amendment, not a later speech about The Knesset passes the reasonableness-clause amendment. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. The Knesset passes the reasonableness-clause amendment on 2023-07-24 is not a licence to treat every later Knesset 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 The Knesset passes the reasonableness-clause amendment into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to His coalition enacted it. The Knesset voted. Courts later reviewed. 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 - Rule of Law: https://factrail.ai/drivers/rule-of-law ## Sources - https://www.timesofisrael.com/coalition-passes-1st-judicial-overhaul-law-limiting-review-of-government-decisions/ - https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-parliament-approves-key-part-judicial-overhaul-2023-07-24/ ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/il-reasonableness-2023