“Without judicial oversight and independent legal advice, we will remain only with the principle of majority rule,” Baharav-Miara told a legal conference at the University of Haifa, eliciting an angry response from Otzma Yehudit leader Itamar Ben-Gvir.
Prime minister-elect says he hopes kingdom joins the Abraham Accords, stresses this could "change our region in ways that are unimaginable" and help produce a Palestinian-Israeli agreement.
"We were elected to lead in our way, the way of the nationalist Right and the way of the liberal Right, and so shall we do," he told the Knesset, to heckling from Center-Left lawmakers.
Ashkenazi ultra-Orthodox faction United Torah Judaism reportedly makes the demand as part of negotiations with Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu.
Move will allow the incoming Netanyahu government for a quicker vote on three crucial bills that would grant leaders of the bloc their coalition demands.
The PM-elect will wait until the Knesset is ready for a confidence vote on his would-be cabinet before he hands out crucial portfolios to his own Likud party. But the big question is: Will he take the path of judicial reforms?
With his initial mandate set to expire on Sunday, the Likud leader sought the maximum 2-week extension allowed by law. President Herzog, whose job as head of state is largely ceremonial, gave him an extra 10 days.
Although the PM-designate has managed to secure the majority of his allies for a vote of confidence that would officially make him prime minister, several issues on portfolios have yet to be finalized.
The parties are yet to sign a final agreement that would see Shas leader Aryeh Deri become interior minister first, and finance minister at the two-year mark.
Opinion polls show that roughly three-quarters of US Jews lean toward the Democratic Party. They tend to be more critical of the Israeli government and more sympathetic to the Palestinians than their Republican counterparts, with these divisions even wider among younger Jews in their 20s.