Has the Branja lost control of the Supreme Court?

I have written nasty posts about the Israeli Supreme Court and its selection process enough times that no one is going to nominate me to be the Justice Minister. The problem is that the court is controlled by the Branja, a Yiddish term meaning the "experts" or the "guild." The members of the Branja include Israel's self-appointed intellectual and cultural elites, North Tel Aviv's high society and