Change Bloc scales back Knesset committee plans due to legal constraints

The Change Bloc in Israel is reducing its planned temporary Knesset committees from six to fewer, prioritizing repeal of three judicial reform laws, after the Knesset legal adviser limited parliament to urgent bills until a new cabinet is formed.

In the Change Bloc, they plan to shelve the initiative to establish six temporary committees simultaneously, due to a restriction from the Knesset's legal adviser, who does not approve the establishment of a large number of committees during the interim period. Instead, committees will be established gradually, prioritizing the cancellation of the judicial reform laws: first, the cancellation of the law weakening the legal adviser, then the law changing the composition of the committee for selecting judges, and finally the police internal affairs law. Additionally, a special committee will be established to cancel the incapacitation law, a committee to promote the law for a state commission of inquiry (which is expected to pass only a preliminary reading), and a committee to cancel the communications law of Karai. Alongside temporary committees, oversight committees without legislative authority will be established, including a committee for the rehabilitation of the north and south and a committee for Arab society affairs, whose chairmanship will be given to the Joint List. The Ra'am party will receive an additional oversight committee on a topic to be agreed upon.