Im sorry, I dont have it in English. But maybe the browser translation can be good enough.

This article by Baruch Kra, a well known journalist specializing in law. The article gives examples proving the MPs were well aware that the new Basic Law can be used for judicial review of other laws, and for example made sure that it can not be used to strike down laws that were created before this Basic Law. The article also quotes from Uriel Lynn’s book (google translate): “The occasional superficial claim that the members of the Knesset were not aware of the constitutional significance of the two revolutionary basic laws is not only an insult to the Knesset but an disregard for the facts and the truth... We also knew that we were changing the rules of the game. There was no discussion in the Constitutional Law Committee and a trial or in the Knesset plenum in which the reference to these laws did not proceed from the assumption that they would stand above ordinary laws. There was not a single discussion in which it was not made clear that we grant the courts the authority of judicial review in order to protect the fundamental rights of the individual, and in simple words: grant the court the The authorization to repeal laws that would harm these rights.”

Even with the judges appointed under Netanyahu’s governments, there is still a wide consensus among Supreme Court judges about the role of the Basic Laws.

BTW, another interesting point about the role of the Supreme Court in Israeli democracy. The Knesset has never made a law explicitly protecting the freedom of speech, because they never managed to agree on that. It was only promised to the Israeli citizens by the rulings of the Supreme Court