Politics and Knesset
The proposed legislation would allow for Shas Party leader Aryeh Deri to return to his roles as interior and health minister.
“Seventeen years of attempts, an uncompromising struggle, and a strong belief in the righteousness of this path converged into one moment today,” said MK Yuli Edelstein, who sponsored the measure.
“You are burning a country in vain, you are boycotting an elected government in vain,” responded Knesset Law Committee chair Simcha Rothman.
The national security minister decries an order barring him from police operations.
“The minister must refrain from giving operative instructions to the police, either directly or indirectly,” the ruling states.
With little hope left for reaching a compromise, here are the five possible scenarios.
“The government took 17 minutes to announce that it rejects the plan. They didn’t even bother to study it,” said opposition leader Yair Lapid.
While he opposes most of the government’s program, the renowned jurist rejects the main argument of its critics, who argue that it spells the end of Israel’s democracy.
“A new identity crisis has emerged in the spider’s web,” says Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani.
Demonstrations are taking place across Israel the day after the president’s judicial reform plan was dismissed as inadequate by the governing coalition.
“You cannot have an army where people say that if the government doesn’t do what I want, I won’t serve. Today, it will be judicial reform. Tomorrow, it will be removal of settlements,” said Maj. Gen. (res.) Amir Avivi.
The Israeli president presented the “people’s plan” during a national address.
