Judicial-independence

“If Israel were a flesh-and-blood person, it would probably have been taken to the ICU yesterday.” This is how senior journalist Avi Ashkenazi described Israel’s current situation in an article published in the Hebrew-language daily Maariv. He claimed that under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, the country’s state institutions, security apparatus, and political structure are becoming increasingly weakened, pushing the state toward a major institutional crisis. According to Ashkena...