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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's judicial overhaul plan has plunged the country into nine months of unrest and exposed bitter divisions within Israeli society. On Tuesday, the country’s gaze shifts from the streets to the courtroom, where a panel of Supreme Court judges will deliberate over the very laws meant to curtail their power. Israel’s High Court is to hear the first of three flashpoint cases in the coming weeks, all dealing with the legality of the overhaul. ....
Tens of thousands of demonstrators hold huge rallies across the occupied territories in protest against Israeli far-right cabinet for the 36th week in a row. ....
Israel's chief military legal officer on Monday warned against steps that would compromise court independence, in what appeared to be the clearest public criticism yet by top brass of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's judicial overhaul plan. Military Advocate General Major Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi cautioned against Israel being stripped of one of its main defences on international legal issues, according to her speech at a conference of Israel's Bar Association in Tel Aviv. "The Israel Defence Forces (IDF)'s international legitimacy efforts are greatly benefited by the aura, the protection, with which the justice system provides it - particularly, the Supreme Court's professional and independent international status," said Tomer-Yerushalmi. ....
The Israeli air force has suspended a number of its senior reservists amid persisting protests against the regime's hawkish prime ministers and his policies. ....
Protest leaders say thousands of reservists have stopped reporting for duty. Among them are hundreds of air force pilots and navigators whose absence from weekly refresher flights means that by next month, they may no longer qualify for combat. "There is a mutiny within the IDF (Israel Defence Forces) and any military deals with insurgents as insurgents should be dealt with," Dudi Amsalem, a minister in the Justice Ministry, told Army Radio. ....