Israel's Political Turmoil Deepens as Netanyahu's Coalition Suffers Defeat and Judiciary Faces Scrutiny

Members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition helped elect an opposition candidate to the panel that selects Israel’s judges, while overwhelmingly opposing its own candidate for the panel’s second slot. The narrow election of Yesh Atid’s Karine Elharrar to the Judicial Selection Committee may have temporarily staved off a wave of intensified nationwide protests against the Netanyahu government’s planned judicial overhaul, and could turn out to have prevented the total collapse of talks under the aegis of President Isaac Herzog on alternative proposals for judicial reform.