Finance Committee Chair Calls to Close Israeli Supreme Court Over Budget Freeze

Hanoch Milvitsky, chairman of the Knesset Finance Committee, responded sharply to the Israeli Supreme Court's decision to freeze budget transfers to ultra-Orthodox communities that his committee had approved. On social media platform X, Milvitsky criticized the court, specifically naming Judges Solberg and Stein, who he said entered the Supreme Court as conservatives but are now blocking the budget. He stated that the Supreme Court lacks proper regulation and called for its closure, advocating instead for the establishment of a constitutional court to handle such matters.