Tourism Minister Yariv Levin attacked the Supreme Court after Chief Justice Miriam Naor refused to attend Wednesday's ceremony marking 50 years of building Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, the Golan, and Jerusalem.

Levin accused the Supreme Court of being a branch of the far-left Meretz party. "It turns out that the judges are actually working for the Meretz party," he said. "They sit there and dictate the positions of a very narrow definition of Israeli society."