The law limiting the courts' use of "reasonableness" to overturn executive decisions passed with 64 in favor and none opposed, with the opposition boycotting the vote.

The first clause of the bill, called Basic Law: Torah Study, says, "Torah study is a supreme value in the heritage of the Jewish people."

The addition of the Abu Mahdi would give Iran a cruise missile with a claimed range of 1,000km, Iranian state media claimed on Tuesday.

The purpose of the law, the Israeli Bar contended, was to "immunize" the heads of the executive authority from acting within the bounds of reason.

Former police chief Moshe Karadi also called Itamar Ben-Gvir "a criminal in his very essence; he does things that don't even have a drop of humanity. He isn't a human being."

"We agree with the US assessment that this is a coordinated effort to justify and lay blame on Ukraine for any attacks against civilian ships in the Black Sea," Woodward told reporters.

A majority of Israelis (55%) polled are interested in a return to talks on the judicial reform.

Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, in a speech on Monday, said Israel was on a "path of collapse and fragmentation."