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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul plan has plunged the country into nine months of unrest and exposed bitter divisions within Israeli society. On Tuesday, the country’s gaze shifted from the streets to the courtroom, where Supreme Court judges began to deliberate over the very laws meant to curtail their power. Israel’s High Court is hearing …

In the next few weeks, Israel’s Supreme Court is scheduled to hear three extraordinarily consequential petitions against the Government.  Two of the cases involve challenges to amendments to Israel’s quasi-constitutional Basic Laws.  One deals with the circumstances under which the Prime Minister may be declared to be “incapacitated” (akin to the 25th Amendment to the American Constitution). Another addresses the …