to be overturned by a one-vote majority among the justices.” Navot said it was high time to regulate both the status of Basic Laws and the power of judicial review in a Basic Law on Legislation. She too doesn’t rule out an override clause, “but only if there’s no other possible way, and only after the entire constitutional process is complete.”

Even then, she added, “there must be an under-standing that use of this tool should be the rarest of exceptions, and it must be built to infringe as little as possible on human rights. The majority needed for an override must be high enough to ensure extremely broad legislative support for reenacting a law, spanning both coalition and opposition, to mitigate fears of a tyranny of the majority.” The override should also be limited in t...

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