Amid a national crisis over a planned judicial overhaul, Israel’s Parliament approved a bill making it much harder to remove a prime minister from office.

Israel’s protests continue to grow after the country’s parliament passed a law that would make it nearly impossible to remove Prime Minister Netanyahu from office as he faces corruption charges. NBC’s Raf Sanchez reports from Tel Aviv on the complaints that he is destroying the nation’s democracy.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition approved legislation that would protect the Israeli leader from being deemed unfit to rule over his corruption trial and claims of a conflict of interest surrounding his involvement in the legal changes.

Israeli opposition politicians on Thursday condemned a new law that would limit the ways a sitting prime minister can be declared unfit for office, and is largely seen by critics as a way to protect Benjamin Netanyahu,

Israel's parliament has passed the first of several laws proposed as part of a contentious judicial overhaul that has sparked massive public protests.

The government's judicial overhaul plan has plunged the nearly 75-year-old nation into one of its worst domestic crises.

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Israel news every morning. Israel’s parliament has passed a law limiting the circumstances in which a prime minister can be removed from office,