Israeli Knesset committee to repeal judicial overhaul laws, led by Democrats

A special Knesset committee, headed by a representative of Yair Golan's Democrats party, will be established this week to fast-track legislation reversing changes to the Judicial Selection Committee and strengthening the legal advisor's status. Matan Kahana is expected to become Knesset Speaker, and Avigdor Lieberman will chair the temporary Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.

Even before the government is formed, the Democrats party marks the repeal of the judicial reform laws as a central goal. The article claims that behind the struggle is not concern for democracy, but the left's fear of losing the judicial system that serves as their political safety net. The author, Mati Tuchfeld, accuses the left of being unable to survive in a true democratic government without the protection of the judicial system, and presents the reforms as minor and necessary. He mentions the Boaz Balt recordings, the collapse of Netanyahu's cases, and the summoning of the Attorney General as evidence of rot in the system, but does not bring a response from the Democrats or official sources. The article ends with a call not to call the Democrats 'Democrats' but 'the party of cowards'.