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Controversial judicial law passes first vote in Israeli Knesset

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the floor the Knesset, Israel's parliament, as his coalition pressed ahead with a contentious plan to change the country's judicial system on March 13 [Ohad Zwigenberg/AP Photo]

The Israeli parliament has advanced a bill that would allow it to overrule Supreme Court rulings and enact laws that had been struck down, despite months of protests against it.

The Knesset took until the early hours of Tuesday morning to pass the first reading of the bill, which has been one of the main priorities of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his governing coalition of far-right and ultra-Orthodox religious parties.

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