From Haaretz:
Justice Minister [yes that’s the government justice minister] Yaakov Neeman took to the Knesset podium Tuesday to try to calm the political storm he caused this week when he said that "step by step, Torah law will become the binding law in the State of Israel." Neeman made his controversial remarks Monday evening at a convention on Jewish law in Jerusalem…
Another former justice minister and law professor, Amnon Rubinstein, said Neeman’s plan "would amount to severing the majority of Israel" from the state, and mean most of Israel’s judges would have to be replaced by rabbis.
In the wake of the uproar caused by his remarks, the Justice Ministry issued a statement Tuesday denying that Neeman intends to replace Israel’s legal system with Jewish law.
