Well, it looks like my recent blog post on How Israel Can Become a Better Democracy is really making some waves. (Just kidding, but the coincidence is a bit strange). I just read that the selection process for Supreme Court judges was just changed to make it less subject to poltics. The selection committee is made up of the President of the Supreme Court and two other justices, the minister of justice and one other minister, to opposition members of Knesset and two representatives from the Israeli Bar association. It used to be that a simple majority (5 out of 9) would be needed to approve any judge (including the Supreme Court). Now 7 are needed, making the votes less susceptible to blok voting for political reasons. (Knowing that the Israeli Bar association and Supreme Court have traditionally tended towards the “Left” in politics, it is pretty easy to see how the old voting structure could lead to a perpetual flow of like-minded judges throughout the Israeli legal system). Definitely a step in the right direction.