A bill submitted to the Knesset would enlarge the number of Supreme Court Justices from 15 to 18. The bill, submitted by two Knesset members from the pro-security and pro-faith camp, would enlarge the number of judges in the nation’s top court in order to strengthen its “representative nature” and increase the “variety of opinion” there.
The bill’s sponsors, MK Michael Ben-Ari (National Union) and Yariv Levin (Likud), also said that it would serve to “reduce the case load” on the justices and ease the backlog of cases awaiting their days in court. The need for such a move is exacerbated, they wrote, in the face of the Supreme Court’s increased tendency to decide "matters relating to policy and world-view.”
The change would enable “true variety in the makeup of the Supreme Court,” the sponsors explained, after years in which it “suffered as a result of a monolithic human makeup, and a lack of proper representation for the range of streams in the Israeli public."
Adding variety to the court’s makeup would make it possible to add judges “with expertise in various fields” a
Change would make court “more professional in a range of legal matters brought before it.” 
nd would “contribute to the professional nature of the court,” making it “more professional in a range of legal matters brought before it.”
6,129 Cases in One Year
Levin and Ben-Ari noted that according to data published by the Court Management, the Supreme Court dealt with no less than 6,129 cases in 2008. They noted that this number is the result of several factors, including “the Court’s tendency to widen the range of its activity" and "the lack of legal certainty which causes a multiplicity of cases and makes court processes take too long.”
Enlarging the number of judges in the Supreme Court and anchoring this change in law will make it possible to add panels of judges, allot more time for hearing various cases and add judges to the on-call roster.
Because the Supreme Court is the nation’s top judicial institution, it is important that the number of judges be determined through legislation, the Knesset Members further explained.