Judicial Reform
“Are 11 or 10 judges more reasonable than 63 Knesset members who were lawfully elected?” Aryeh Deri asked.
The Israeli opposition leader previously warned of “civil war.”
The organizers hinted on Sunday that their next step will involve civil disobedience.
“Top Story” with Jonathan Tobin and guest Jerome Marcus, Ep. 80.
The gaggle of radical sponsors at the first anti-judicial reform rally vanished from the second.
MK Simcha Rothman’s proposed legislation goes even farther than that put forward by Justice Minister Yariv Levin, and as a “private bill” does not require review by the attorney general.
The “Caroline Glick Show,” with Caroline Glick and guest Karol Markowicz.
“The more I hear the counter-arguments ... the more my understanding grows of the critical importance of this reform,” says Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.
“It will harm the foundations of the State of Israel, its economy and its citizens, and it may tear the rope that connects us all,” the former Israeli prime minister said.
‘The changes will bring Israel in line with the leading democracies.’
The government’s legal reform package calls for making ministry legal advisers’ opinions non-binding, putting an end to what it calls the “subjugation of the government to an unelected rank.”
The Israeli prime minister defends his government’s judicial reform plan, calls on opposition leaders to stop speaking about civil war and “the destruction of the state.”
