Independence of the judiciary from executive and legislative encroachment. Specifically captures court-packing, selective prosecution, judicial reshuffles.
Rule of law as institutional substrate — contract enforcement, judicial independence, equal treatment before the law. Upstream of most other axes.
Amendment No. 3 to Basic Law: The Judiciary passed 64–0 on 24 July 2023 (opposition walked out) barring courts from reviewing the reasonableness of decisions by cabinet ministers and the government. First statute of the broader Levin judicial overhaul to be enacted. Struck down on 1 January 2024 by an expanded 15-justice Supreme Court panel: 12–3 holding the Court has power to review Basic Laws, 8–7 on merits that the amendment caused extreme harm to core democratic character. Landmark constitutional ruling in Israeli history.
Per invariant 3, reforms are scored by what they did on each channel-separated axis, not by the party that enacted them. This fingerprint is how the policy-match engine finds historical analogues.
Explicit links are curated by the author. Inferred links are hypotheses in the library that test the same axes this policy moved — the framework's answer to "what does the data say about a policy like this?".
Ranked by axis-fingerprint overlap with this policy. Direction match bolded — those are the closest historical analogues. Shape of the match is what drives policy-outcome comparison, not the country or party label.