Justice Minister Yariv Levin on Sunday called on the government to ignore the High Court of Justice’s “illegal” and “reckless” decision to allow protests on a larger scale than what the current regulations permit, urging the cabinet to instruct law enforcement to enforce Home Front Command restrictions on public gatherings in defiance of the court ruling.

The High Court issued an interim order on Saturday allowing up to 600 people to attend an evening anti-war protest in Tel Aviv and up to 150 attendees in Jerusalem, Haifa, and Kfar Saba, respectively, despite Home Front Command regulations imposed due to the risk of missiles from Iran. In the decision, judges accused police of selectively enforcing the restrictions, which cap outdoor public gatherings at 50 people.

Saturday’s ruling applied only to that evening’s protests, rather than to all protests going forward.

The judges pointed to the fact that beaches and malls are regularly packed with people despite the restrictions, but said police have only focused on breaking up protests, and not other gatherings.

“This situation is difficult to reconcile,” judges wrote in their decision.

Writing to National Security Council interim chairman Gil Reich, Levin stated that the court’s ruling was “made in complete contradiction to the professional position of the Home Front Command,” arguing that “this is primarily a professional issue of risk management” and “not a legal issue.”

Levin went on to assert that the court has a record of dangerous rulings, blaming it for the 2021 Meron disaster, in........

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