This is the Forward’s coverage of the 2023 judiciary reform effort and resultant crisis in Israel.
Judicial Overhaul
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Israel News ‘A very, very dangerous situation’: An Israeli journalist’s key takeaways from recent protests
Amir Tibon of Haaretz explains Netanyahu's judicial reform and recent protests
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Opinion Are Israeli generals more left-wing than their own government?
For those who think military leaders are inherently conservative, Israel’s security establishment presents a puzzle
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News ‘The gun is on the table’: Both sides of Israel’s debate say that a constitutional crisis is coming
Israelis are facing the prospect of a dramatic breakdown in their 75-year-old democracy
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News ‘Not a time to be silent’: Reform Israeli rabbi and lawmaker urges American Jews to take a stand on Israel’s constitutional crisis
Gilad Kariv warns that Israel’s right-wing government has more plans to curtail democracy and religious pluralism
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News Alarmed by their country’s political direction, more Israelis are seeking to move abroad
“When the whole issue of the [judicial] revolution started, we just decided not to wait and to do it immediately,” said one Israeli who is moving to Spain next month
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Fast Forward Biden stresses democratic values in call with Netanyahu on judicial overhaul
In the first call between the leaders since the Netanyahu-led government’s plan to gut Israel’s judiciary attracted widespread criticism, Biden says he hopes ‘compromise formula’ can be found, offers support
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Fast Forward Asaf Zamir, Israel’s top diplomat in NY, summoned to Jerusalem after implicitly criticizing judicial overhaul
Meanwhile, Zamir’s wife Maya Wertheimer appeared in a provocative pro-democracy show to kick off Tel Aviv Fashion Week
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Letters Halevi is wrong. The fight to end the occupation and protect democracy are directly intertwined
It is impossible to separate the attacks on the judiciary from the government’s plans to annex the West Bank
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