A major tumult took place in the Knesset on Wednesday when in a major defeat for the coalition, opposition member Yesh Atid MK Karin Elharrar was elected as a member of the Judicial Selection Committee, which selects justices who serve on the Supreme Court. The makeup of the Judicial Selection Committee is one of the key issues in the government’s judicial reform plan. The coalition votes for one candidate on the committee and traditionally, (although not required by law), it allows the opposition to elect one candidate. The drama began when the heads of the opposition parties, Yair Lapid and Benny Gantz, threatened to abandon the judicial reform talks if their candidate for the committee wasn’t elected.
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