Sarah Ben-Nun

Rioters reportedly caused significant property damage and attempted to break into Supreme Court Justice Noam Sohlberg's home.

According to the request, the applicants asked to join after the petition was filed, citing their public interest in the law and involvement in the parliamentary and public debate around it.

The reform was designed to move Israel’s kashrut system away from one controlled almost entirely by the Chief Rabbinate and local rabbinates, and toward a regulated market.

Eyal Eshel, father of an IDF observer killed at the Nahal Oz base, said the families had faced deep frustration over what he described as missing information from the defense establishment.

Comptroller Englman raised concerns that membership fees may have been paid by someone other than the party member, a practice that is illegal under Israeli law.

The cross-examination section of the trial is in its final stretch. The hearings come on the backdrop of the fragile developments with Iran.

Roman Gofman is set to assume the role of Mossad chief after the High Court approved his appointment on Monday.

Netanyahu is currently being cross-examined in Case 2000, the media-corruption case involving his conversations with Yediot Aharonot publisher Arnon “Noni” Mozes ahead of the 2015 election.

Speaking at the Israel Bar Association’s annual conference in Eilat, Baharav-Miara said the judicial overhaul had entered a more extreme “second phase."

He said the situation had reached the point where some judges were afraid to answer phone calls from unknown numbers out of fear of threats and harassment.