The Israeli Law Professors’ Forum for Democracy, an ad hoc and voluntary group of experts on Israeli law and specifically Israeli public law, expresses its grave concern over the apparent intention to abolish the independence of the judiciary, to subordinate it to the government and to the partisan political considerations of the executive branch, to undermine the independent status of the attorney general and civil service legal counsels, and to violate human rights. In this position paper we examine the claim made by proponents of the regime changes in Israel according to which the appointment of judges to the New Zealand Supreme Court is determined exclusively by the politicians from the governing parties.
Our findings: The claim that the procedure for appointing supreme court judges in New Zealand is controlled exclusively by politicians, let alone politicians from the governing coalition parties, is mistaken and misleading.