Retired Supreme Court justices slammed Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann on Wednesday, criticizing what they called the minister's infringement on the judiciary's independence.

At a conference discussing the functioning of the Supreme Court, which took place Wednesday at the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem, retired Supreme Court justice Dalia Dorner decreed the advent of a "legal revolution," in which the government is controlling the judicial authority, stating that "in the near future the judicial authority will lose its independence."

Since his appointment to the post of Justice Minister in February, Friedmann has instituted a number of reforms aimed at curbing the power of the Supreme Court, and allowing for greater control on the executive level of government. Measures that have raised particular ire among members of the judiciary concern authority over the appointment of justices, which has traditionally come under the jurisdiction of the judicial branch.