(JNS) Israeli lawmaker Simcha Rothman, a leading figure in the coalition’s judicial reform initiative, said that some of the legislative package would pass into law regardless of the outcome of negotiations with the opposition.

“I believe that part of the reform will pass…. If there is an agreement, this will be the part that will pass. If not, I believe that we will pass part of the reform, maybe even [the changes to] the Judicial Selection Committee, which is the part that is most ready for a second and third [final] reading [in the Knesset plenum],” the chairman of the legislature’s Constitution, Law and Justice Committee told Channel 12.

Rothman said that the “ball is in the hands of the opposition,” noting that if agreements are reached then that is the proposed legislation that will be passed in the Knesset.

“I think everyone understands today that reform is needed; it has almost become a consensus,” the Religious Zionism Party member emphasized.