Yoav Gallant is sacked by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after opposing the controversial shake-up.
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has been sacked by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after calling for the scrapping of controversial plans to overhaul the justice system.
In a brief televised statement on Saturday night, Mr Gallant said members of the Israeli Defence Forces were angry and disappointed, with an intensity he had never encountered before. The law is part of the right-wing coalition government's contentious plan to limit the powers of the judiciary. But Mr Netanyahu says the reforms are designed to stop the courts overreaching their powers and that they were voted for by the public at the last election.
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