Yariv Levin
Yariv Gideon Levin is an Israeli lawyer and politician who serves as Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Justice, Minister of Interior and Minister of Religious Services. He served as Speaker of the Knesset in December 2022, previously serving in that role from 2020 to 2021. He currently serves as a member of Knesset for Likud, and previously held the posts of Minister of Internal Security, Minister of Tourism, and Minister of Aliyah and Integration.
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Aug 7, 2026
Lean Left
Revives judicial overhaul legislation to change the Judicial Selection Committee and limit High Court review.
The center-left opposes this as a direct power grab that would remove the judiciary as a check on coalition appointees.
Aug 5, 2026
Far Left
The justice minister continues to freeze judicial appointments and pushes the judicial overhaul that ignites a democracy crisis.
Levin's campaign to subordinate the courts threatens minority rights, a core alarm for Hadash.
Aug 5, 2026
Center
The High Court ordered him to explain his plan to appoint a police internal investigations chief during a transition period.
Yesh Atid welcomes the court's scrutiny because Levin's appointment would entrench coalition control over law enforcement in the middle of an election.
Aug 1, 2026
Lean Left
As Justice Minister, architect of the legal reform bill that returns to the Knesset committee.
Labor/Meretz consider him the central figure dismantling the Supreme Court's independence and democratic balance.
Jul 28, 2026
Center
Levin's judicial overhaul attempt is described in an op-ed as a 'conservative march of folly' that failed.
Yesh Atid celebrates the failure of Levin's plan but warns that the same coalition may repeat its attempts.
Jul 9, 2026
Center
The Justice Minister openly called for the government to ignore a High Court ruling requiring a new vote for State Comptroller.
Yesh Atid condemns Levin's call as a direct assault on the rule of law and the separation of powers.
Jul 7, 2026
Far Left
Justice Minister Levin is reviving parts of the judicial overhaul, aiming to weaken the Supreme Court's ability to review coalition legislation.
Hadash considers Levin's judicial power grab an existential threat to democratic checks and balances, enabling the coalition's discriminatory agenda without restraint.
Jul 3, 2026
Lean Left
Justice Minister Levin is shepherding the judicial overhaul bill through the Knesset, rejecting compromise proposals.
Considered the architect of the anti-democratic overhaul, directly threatening the rule of law and judicial independence.
Jun 26, 2026
Lean Left
Pushes forward the reasonableness standard bill through the Knesset Constitution Committee despite mass opposition.
Levin is the architect of the judicial overhaul that Labour and Meretz see as a direct threat to democratic checks and balances.
Jun 5, 2026
Center
Levin published a list of 18 judicial candidates for district courts in Beer Sheva and Haifa only, following a Supreme Court ruling, but has still not convened the judicial selection committee in over 18 months.
From a Yesh Atid perspective, Levin is the chief architect of judicial paralysis, using procedural delays to reshape the bench while the rule of law erodes, exactly the authoritarian pattern Lapid's party has warned about.