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Apr. 4, 2021 8:09 PM
The High Court of Justice ruled on Sunday that the government-mandated 1,000-meter (about 0.6 miles) limit on how far people could travel to a demonstration during the second lockdown was unconstitutional, and will therefore not be allowed again.
An expanded panel of nine judges, headed by Supreme Court President Esther Hayut, did determine that limiting the number of demonstrators was a reasonable measure, since it was meant to ensure social distancing. Speaking for himself, not the court, Justice Menachem Mazuz noted that “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should have refrained from taking part in making decisions on regulations relating to demonstrations directed against him.”
Raoul Wootliff is the The Times of Israel s political correspondent.
Defense Minister Benny Gantz, the interim justice minister, arrives at the Justice Ministry in Jerusalem on January 4, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
The Justice Ministry is set to be left without a justice minister as of midnight Thursday as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prevents an appointment to the post, in a move precipitating chaos and confusion in the judiciary just days before his corruption trial is set to begin in earnest.
Blue and White party chair Benny Gantz, who also serves as defense minister, has served as interim justice minister for the past three months, but his term expires Thursday with the failure to appoint him or anybody else as permanent minister.
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