Sahin Demir<\/p>\n
05 July 2026\u2022Update: 05 July 2026<\/p>\n
Israel\u2019s government said Sunday it will not recognize decisions made by the Council of the Second Authority, the country\u2019s commercial broadcasting regulator, in defiance of a recent High Court ruling allowing the body to continue operating despite lacking a legal quorum.<\/p>\n
The Cabinet approved a declaration proposed by Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi and Justice Minister Yariv Levin stating that the government would not respect decisions, approvals, appointments or actions taken by the council in its current composition, according to The Times of Israel news website.<\/p>\n
The move could trigger a constitutional crisis by creating a situation in which the High Court considers the council\u2019s decisions valid while the government refuses to implement them.<\/p>\n
In its resolution, the government argued that the court verdict violated provisions of the 1990 law governing the Council of the Second Authority, insisting that \u201cthe rule of law obligates all governmental authorities, including the court.\u201d<\/p>\n
It further claimed that a court ruling \u201ccannot confer authority that does not exist under the law.\u201d<\/p>\n
Last month, Israel\u2019s High Court froze a government decision to alter the composition of the broadcasting council and ruled that it could continue functioning despite several resignations that left it below the required two-thirds quorum.<\/p>\n
The court said it suspected the resignations were intended to deliberately paralyze the regulator\u2019s work and undermine an earlier judicial ruling.<\/p>\n
It also accused Karhi of orchestrating efforts to obstruct the council\u2019s operations following an interim order issued in May.<\/p>\n
The latest standoff adds to growing tensions between Israel\u2019s judiciary and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s government amid wider disputes over judicial authority and governance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sahin Demir 05 July 2026\u2022Update: 05 July 2026 Israel\u2019s government said Sunday it will not recognize decisions made…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":["post-526570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}