Israel’s two most senior judicial officials—Supreme Court President Isaac Amit and Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara—issued stark warnings on June 1, 2026, accusing the governing coalition of deliberately working to dismantle Israeli democracy through its assault on the judiciary. Speaking at an Israel Bar Association conference, Amit, who has been boycotted by the government since his appointment in January 2025, decried the deliberate spread of false information by elected officials to undermine the Supreme Court—including the debunked claim that a 2018 High Court ruling loosened IDF open-fire regulations and enabled the October 7 attacks—warning that normalizing such “fake” information paves the way to rejecting binding rulings, ignoring the law, and even resorting to violence, and could ultimately erode public trust in elections. Baharav-Miara, who has been targeted by ministers, said the government had launched “a race to eliminate democratic institutions” ahead of upcoming elections, pointing to two bills advancing through the Knesset—one stripping the attorney general of powers to check the government, another giving the justice minister control over the body that investigates police misconduct. Justice Minister Yariv Levin, who has led the boycott of Amit and refuses to use his title, fired back that Amit lacks public trust and “tramples” on the people, even as he signaled he might defy a High Court order to convene the Judicial Selection Committee.

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