This is the Forward’s coverage of the 2023 judiciary reform effort and resultant crisis in Israel.
Judicial Overhaul
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Fast Forward Top Jewish scientists, Nobel prize winners warn of ‘grave’ global effect of Israel’s judicial overhaul
The group warned that curbing the power of the high court and other institutions will ‘provoke a rift' with the international scientific community
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Fast Forward Mass protest in Jerusalem as Knesset advances judicial reforms over widespread objections
But following an address on Sunday by Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, begging for negotiations over the reforms, the coalition said it would delay a milestone vote that would have advanced the legislation further.
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Fast Forward Fearing ‘constitutional and social collapse,’ Israel’s president begs for compromise on judicial reform
Isaac Herzog, whose role is ceremonial, said he would make himself available “at all hours of the day” for negotiations
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News ‘We have to leave our comfort zone’: Cautious but determined, Israeli expats protest Netanyahu’s government
Israelis in America were once known to keep a low profile in Jewish communities. That sense of shame has faded
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News Hartman Institute received major donations from U.S. billionaires funding attack on Israeli judiciary
For 10 years, the Hartman Institute received more than $25 million in donations from the CLAWS Foundation, the major financial backers of the conservative-libertarian Kohelet Policy Forum
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Fast Forward Over 70 U.S. legal scholars warn against ‘speed and scale’ of Israel’s judicial overhaul
Prominent law professors, including the former deans of Harvard and Yale law schools, signed a joint statement against the Netanyahu government’s plan to dramatically weaken the Supreme Court and curtail the independence of government legal advisers
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Opinion If you want to support Israel, boycott its new government
American Jewish communities must distance themselves from the current government in any way possible
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Opinion Israel’s new far-right government is already chilling innovation and causing brain drain
Tech companies are already leaving Israel in response to proposed legislation by the new Israeli cabinet
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