Israel’s Supreme Court has dealt Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a setback by striking down a controversial new law that rolled back some of the high court’s power. Netanyahu’s broad effort to weaken the judiciary sparked massive protests across Israel last year that deeply divided the country.

On Sunday, a former member of Netanyahu’s Cabinet, Galit Distel Atbaryan, issued a rare public apology for her role in creating divisiveness inside Israel before October 7. She said, “I was one of those people that caused the state to be weakened, that harmed people. I created a split, I created a rift, and I created tension. And this tension brought weakness. And this weakness, in many ways, brought massacre.”