Israelis wave national flags as they protest against the government’s controversial judicial overhaul bill in Tel Aviv on March 9, 2023. And in a system where the legislature is famously weak - most lawmakers are appointed by the very party leaders who make up the executive branch - the result, critics fear, is an effective demolition of any meaningful check on government power. It erases the judiciary’s capacity to check the other branches altogether. The reform no one wantsĪs has been exhaustively analyzed, including in this newspaper, the reform in its current iteration doesn’t merely “rebalance” the powers of the judiciary in a broader checks-and-balances system with the legislature and the executive branch. Indeed, the government’s judicial shakeup, which is now roiling Israeli public life, has been described as just such an extreme-position strategy by its own supporters. Starting with an “extreme claim” is par for the course in the Knesset. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)Ī dive into the professional literature on bargaining tactics offers an eye-opening commentary on the present state of Israeli politics. Incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) with incoming Justice Minister Yariv Levin in the Knesset on December 13, 2022.
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