The Minister of Justice, the chairman of the Judicial Selection Committee, is supposed to be one of the central and fundamental symbols of the rule of law and the country's judicial system.
The checks and balances that have existed in the legal system since the establishment of the state, especially in the absence of a constitution, constitute the guarantee for the existence of a democratic regime (mainly for Jews, less so for Arabs), despite the contradictions and contradictions that stem from the definition of the State of Israel as Jewish and democratic.
"This is not the way," former Supreme Court President Esther Hayut declared and pleaded with Justice Minister Yariv Levin. This is not the way to make changes that would mean creating a coup d'état or a legal revolution.
There is certainly room for change, but such changes will lead to increased equality and justice and strengthen the foundations of the democratic regime, and will not come from the goal and attempt to impose an autocratic rule, supposedly in the name of the law, for years and change the face of Israeli society solely for the benefit of the interests of government supporters.
The conduct of the Minister of Justice in his role as chairman of the Judicial Appointments Committee, which is expressed in an attempt to cancel the deliberations of the Judicial Appointments Committee, while delaying the appointment of judges and blatantly interfering in the appointment of a president of the Supreme Court, does not add respect and trust to the judicial system and harms the status of the rule of law, its stability and the continued existence of an equal democratic regime towards all citizens of the country.
Without an independent judicial system, there is no resurrection for a democratic state, neither Jewish nor all its citizens.
Levin behaved as an adversary, not a friend, of the rule of law.