“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...