On February 21, 2023, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, called upon Israel to halt its plans to reform the legal and judicial systems due to concerns about possible human rights violations. Just a week earlier, protestors had gathered outside of Israel’s unicameral legislature to protest the reforms proposed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanhyu’s government in December 2022. In particular, Türk condemned the proposal of limiting the Israeli Supreme Court’s ability to perform judicial review because “such a law would drastically undermine the ability of the judiciary to vindicate individual rights and to uphold the rule of law as an effective institutional check on executive and legislative power.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded by calling the UN Human Rights Council “biased and ineffectual” and ignored Türk’s concerns, claiming that the reforms would “strengthen democracy in Israel.”