Key component of Netanyahu’s polarising judicial overhaul is overturned

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Ohad Zwigenberg/AP)

Israel’s Supreme Court has struck down a key component of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contentious judicial overhaul, a decision that threatens to reopen the fissures in Israeli society that preceded the country’s ongoing war against Hamas.

Those divisions were largely put aside while the country focuses on the war in Gaza, which was triggered by a bloody cross-border attack by Hamas.