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Yariv Levin

Yariv Levin is a senior Israeli lawmaker in the Likud Party and currently serves as the country's justice minister and deputy prime minister. He previously served as Knesset speaker, aliyah and integration minister, tourism minister, and public security minister.

A longtime member of the Likud, Levin's influence in Israeli politics skyrocketed in 2023 when he announced a wide-ranging overhaul of the country's judicial system. Created and spearheaded by both himself and MK Simcha Rothman, judicial reform was highly controversial and sparked massive nationwide protests for months on end, interrupted only by the October 7 massacre and Israel's subsequent war against Hamas.

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 Israel's Justice Minister Yariv Levin holds a press conference at the Knesset, the Israeli Knesset in Jerusalem, on January 4, 2023.

Likud Ministers visit, endorse convicted criminal for local elections

HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE President Esther Hayut hears a petition at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem

Israel's top justice to hold muted retirement event amid Yariv Levin spat

 GALI BAHARAV-MIARA

A-G: Levin gets own rep for spyware case, but bias claims 'baseless'

 JUSTICE MINISTER Yariv Levin presents the reasonableness clause to the Knesset in July.

'They cannot cancel elections': Coalition rails against High Court as justices hear incapacitation

 High Court judge Esther Hayut and 11 justices convened September 28, 2023 to hear arguments on delaying the application of the incapacitation law until the next government

High Court hears arguments to delay application of incapacitation law

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the 78th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City, New York, US, September 22, 2023

Netanyahu 'ignored most crucial aspects of Israel's future in UNGA speech'

 JUSTICE MINISTER Yariv Levin presents the reasonableness clause to the Knesset in July.

Israel's top court is an 'elitist bastion,' Yariv Levin tells 60 Minutes

 JUSTICE MINISTER Yariv Levin presents the reasonableness clause to the Knesset in July.

Persons of the year: Yariv Levin and Shikma Bressler

 JUSTICE MINISTER Yariv Levin presents the reasonableness clause to the Knesset in July.

Israel's High Court postpones judicial hearing after Levin's demand

 Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee chairman MK Simcha Rothman and Justice Minister Yariv Levin.

50 Influential Jews: Yariv Levin and Simcha Rothman - No. 5

 JUSTICE MINISTER Yariv Levin attends a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem.

High Court to Levin: Explain delay in convening Judicial Selection Committee

Justice Minister Yariv Levin holds a press conference at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem on January 4, 2023.

High Court risks undermining democracy with reasonableness hearing - Likud

 (L-R) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, High Court President Esther Hayut

Should Israel's High Court strike down or uphold judicial reform law?

Anti-overhaul activists scuffle with police at a protest outside the home of Israeli Minister of Justice Yariv Levin, in Modi'in on September 11, 2023.

Six arrested during protests at Yariv Levin's home after police clashes

 JUSTICE MINISTER Yariv Levin attends a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem.

The Judicial Selection Committee must be convened now - opinion

By GUY LURIE