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Bethan McKernan in Jerusalem

Israel’s judicial overhaul plans: what is row about and will it affect war in Gaza?

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Israel’s supreme court in session in Jerusalem on 12 September 2023. Photograph: Debbie Hill/Pool via Reuters

What is Israel’s constitutional crisis about?

Israel’s supreme court has ruled to throw out the only part of the contentious judicial overhaul proposed by Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right coalition partners that had so far passed into law, a decision that could plunge the country into fresh domestic turmoil even as it fights a war in the Gaza Strip and prepares for the possibility of full-blown conflict with Hezbollah.

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