Netanyahu Delays Plan to Overhaul Top Court

[Magnus]

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel announced that he would delay judicial changes that have set off civil unrest. The move was aimed at giving Israel’s leader time to de-escalate the political crisis, though protests continued.

The concession came after the head of a powerful far-right political party, Itamar Ben-Gvir, said he was open to postponing the vote, giving Mr. Netanyahu the breathing room to step back and try to de-escalate the protests that have ground Israel to a halt.

Mr. Netanyahu’s reversal came after a tumultuous day of behind-the-scenes political wrangling, street protests and strikes that halted some health services and blocked flights from leaving Israel’s main airport.

• Mr. Netanyahu’s government — the most right-wing and religiously conservative in Israeli history — has sought to give itself greater control over the selection of Supreme Court justices and to limit the court’s authority over Parliament. Critics fear the changes will remove important checks and balances on the government and erode democracy. Supporters say the changes would curb the influence of an overreaching and unelected judicial bureaucracy.

• The fight over the judicial plan has become a stand-in for a deeper ideological and cultural dispute in Israel between those who want a more secular and pluralist state and those with a more religious and nationalist vision. Religious Jews, particularly the ultra-Orthodox, see the court as an obstacle to their ultraconservative way of life.

Israel Judicial Overhaul: Netanyahu Delays Plan to Overhaul Top Court

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel announced that he would delay judicial changes that have set off civil unrest. The move was aimed at giving Israel’s leader time to de-escalate the political crisis, though protests continued.

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[Grumblenuts]

Behind a paywall. Perchance is it on the net and Yahoo?

 

[okfine]

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel announced that he would delay judicial changes that have set off civil unrest. The move was aimed at giving Israel’s leader time to de-escalate the political crisis, though protests continued.

The concession came after the head of a powerful far-right political party, Itamar Ben-Gvir, said he was open to postponing the vote, giving Mr. Netanyahu the breathing room to step back and try to de-escalate the protests that have ground Israel to a halt.

Mr. Netanyahu’s reversal came after a tumultuous day of behind-the-scenes political wrangling, street protests and strikes that halted some health services and blocked flights from leaving Israel’s main airport.

• Mr. Netanyahu’s government — the most right-wing and religiously conservative in Israeli history — has sought to give itself greater control over the selection of Supreme Court justices and to limit the court’s authority over Parliament. Critics fear the changes will remove important checks and balances on the government and erode democracy. Supporters say the changes would curb the influence of an overreaching and unelected judicial bureaucracy.

• The fight over the judicial plan has become a stand-in for a deeper ideological and cultural dispute in Israel between those who want a more secular and pluralist state and those with a more religious and nationalist vision. Religious Jews, particularly the ultra-Orthodox, see the court as an obstacle to their ultraconservative way of life.

Israel Judicial Overhaul: Netanyahu Delays Plan to Overhaul Top Court

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel announced that he would delay judicial changes that have set off civil unrest. The move was aimed at giving Israel’s leader time to de-escalate the political crisis, though protests continued.

www.nytimes.com

Bibi is trying so hard to run the judicial because he's a crook. Similar guy here in the States wants to do the same... avoid prosecution.

 

[pknopp]

I love when I see the people stand up for themselves.