Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Cabinet unanimously decided to defy Israel’s Supreme Court for the first time in the nation’s history, escalating its constitutional crisis.

In parallel to the regional wars Israel has been fighting, Netanyahu has also been embroiled in an escalating domestic crisis around the power of the judiciary. This crisis reached new heights on Sunday after the government voted to defy the nation’s highest court over a dispute regarding the authority of Israel’s Second Authority for Television and Radio, the country’s equivalent to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.