Law and Justice 2.0 (Rothman plan)

The attorney general

• •Government legal adviser: a position of trust of the government
• •Attorney general for prosecution: independent and responsible for criminal proceedings
• •Legal advisers in government ministries: positions of trust of the minister
• •Investigation of prosecutors: it will be determined which body is in charge of investigating prosecutors

The Supreme Court

• •Electing the Supreme Court president and deputy president by secret ballot of all Israeli judges
• •Appointing 10 new justices
• •Public hearing for candidates to the Supreme Court
• •Random panels: setting judges' panels by a computerized mechanism, without human intervention

The High Court of Justice and judicial review

• •Completing the regulation of constitutional review and the override clause
• •Restoring the limits on standing
• •New rules of procedure for the High Court of Justice: clear rules for proceedings, interim orders and decision deadlines

Appointments and governability

• •Abolishing the appointments committees and returning the authority to the government
• •Allowing the government and ministers to appoint up to 50% of senior civil-service office holders
• •Opening senior appointments in the State Attorney's Office to external tenders instead of the "friend brings friend" system

Transparency and oversight

• •Broadcasting hearings in the Supreme Court and in the administrative courts
• •Allowing hearings in the courts to be recorded
• •Publishing family-law judgments after identifying details are removed
• •Strengthening the powers of the Public Complaints Commissioner over state representatives in the courts
• •Giving "teeth" to the duty of senior state employees to appear before the Knesset

Rights in criminal proceedings

• •Limiting the length of investigation and prosecution: clear timetables for a person's status as a suspect
• •Abolishing the state's ability to appeal an acquittal in criminal cases: a person who was acquitted, the proceedings against them end
• •Deleting the breach-of-trust offense: abolishing a vague and undefined catch-all offense

Strengthening the Knesset

• •Lowering the electoral threshold: reducing the barriers to entry for new political forces
• •Expanded surplus-vote agreements: a mechanism that will reduce lost votes
• •Semi-open ballot: voters will be able to influence the ranking of the party's candidates
• •Returning the Knesset members' immunity mechanism to the format that applied until 2006
• •French law for prime ministers and ministers: postponing criminal proceedings for certain offenses until after their term