In the video: Prof. Israel Oman at a hearing in the Constitutional Committee: "Just as checks and balances are needed in the appointment of judges, we also need these in the Knesset" (Knesset Channel)
Professor Israel Oman, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, said today (Thursday) that the legal revolution promoted by the government does not harm the Israeli economy.
According to him, what hurts the economy are the statements of economists about a possible harm.
"These procedures themselves - they have no detrimental effect on the economy," claimed Oman.
"But when the economists came out with their statement here, then really people all over the world said, 'The Israeli economy is going to collapse'. The economy is something very, very sensitive."
"The laws themselves have no meaning, but the statement of the economists drives away the entrepreneurs and all those who want to invest, that's what is happening," added the winner of the Israel Prize in an interview with "Where's the Money" with Liat Ron and Aryeh Maliniak, on radio fm103.
"It has no dawn that it will have any economic impact, that I state as an economist and as a Nobel laureate in economics. I think the economists who signed this letter were really wrong, because they promoted their political views. They can hold their political views, but they They put it in their profession and there is no justification for it."
"The laws have no economic effect."
Prof. Uman in the Knesset, last month (Photo: Knesset Channel)
Oman also referred to the reform itself and said that it is essential.
"The court went far beyond the limits of reason, when it took control of value and ideological issues, with some kind of policy of its own as if it were a legislator," he claimed.
"Aharon Barak told me at the time that a court is really a legislator. He compared the court to the Sages 2,000 years ago who wrote the Talmud, and they were both judges and legislators.
That's right, yes.
But what to do?
With us, a court is not a sage and we don't have a theocracy here. The legislator is the Knesset and only the Knesset, and the court became the legislator in fact, so the current situation arrived."
Oman came out against the existing situation: "This is a dictatorship of the court, something needs to be done. We hear a lot of noise on the other side against the reform."
However, he stated that he does not support all the articles of the reform, and that, among other things, he opposes the escalation clause as proposed by the government: "I think that there should be checks and balances of all government authorities on each other."
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The revolution planned by the government includes a series of significant changes in the legal system, such as a determination that only an expanded composition of the High Court of Justice can invalidate legislation passed by the Knesset. Another step of the revolution, designed to strengthen the government's hand vis-à-vis the court, is the establishment of a superseding clause that will nullify decisions of the High Court by a majority of only 61 members of the Knesset, as well as changing the composition of the committee for the selection of judges so that it is fully controlled by the coalition.
The reform also deals with weakening the power of the legal advisors to the government, so that their position will not bind the government, and with eliminating the reason for reasonableness, which, among other things, significantly limits the court's ability to intervene in the appointment of senior officials.
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