Despite everything – and everyone – Israel advances in judicial reform. The Israeli Parliament, the Knesset, in its first reading this Tuesday morning, passed three bills aimed at weakening the Supreme Court. in the streets, biggest protests in history from the country. But Benjamin Netanyahu’s government does not stand still. As people throw themselves into the defense of democracy, lawmakers are using the institutions to envision a new Israel that seems to leave thousands of its citizens unsatisfied. In response, police violence against demonstrators is increasing and arrests are increasing.
All pieces of legislation that seek to subject the judiciary to broad political control are about to be enacted. They have two more votes left in the Knesset to do so. The bill, approved this Tuesday, will provide the law with: preventive immunity from judicial review. It will also ensure that the Attorney General does not find the prime minister unfit for office and will open its wings to the annulment clause. In this way, Israel’s highest court, the Israel Supreme Court of Justice, loses its power to rein in the legislative and executive. In this new Israel, which will become official later this month, the ruling majority would wield almost unlimited power.
Faced with this alarming picture, Israeli society is gathering in squares and streets to protest the controversial reform. For the past 10 weeks, demonstrations have been held every Saturday in Israel’s main cities, attended by hundreds of thousands of citizens, in an unprecedented move in the history of the Jewish State. Opposition to the new Executive has spread to the United States this week, where hundreds have greeted Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich with calls for a boycott. Moreover Hundreds of Israeli writers, artists and intellectuals called Germany And United Kingdom cancel their next visit Netanyahu.
Protest victories
Protesters last week forced the leader and his wife, Sara, to fly by helicopter to Tel Aviv airport after closing all roads leading there to Rome for their official visit. Another of the victories of the opposition movement is the reintroduction of a reserve officer into the Israeli air force who was fired for trying to arrange takeoffs from training flights to protest the change of judiciary. None of these actions could stop Netanyahu in his project. He said he promised to fulfill the “clear mandate” he received from the electorate in November when he won his fifth election in three and a half years.
“The lack of response from the opposition to our repeated calls for dialogue for two full months proves that the opposition is not interested in reform, but in creating anarchy and overthrowing the elected government,” the president said at the Council this Monday. amid repeated criticism of the media, Netanyahu said:reform is just an excuse“Yet, the opposition has spread to all segments of Israeli society, inside and outside its borders. In fact, hundreds of thousands of people responding to calls for protest every week follow different ideologies.
technology sector
Where the opposition is most striking is the technology sector. The proposals to neutralize the country’s judiciary startled Israeli businessmen, who until now seemed unaffected by the political climate. Israel’s entrepreneurial class, fearful of the predictions of the end of democracy and the rule of law, largest protest movement in the country. But the fact that the consolidation of the ‘start-up nation’ known as Israel coincided with Netanyahu’s tenure did not prevent businesses and corporations from fearing the future his new government was envisioning.
Their growing fear is due to the vulnerability they will experience in a country with a weak judiciary. Netanyahu is aware of the importance of the high-tech sector in his country. With 15.3% of GDP, Israel is the main engine of Israel’s economic growth, while employing 10% of the country’s salaried workforce and accounting for almost a quarter of its income tax. The rising political and social tension in Israel has already begun to be felt in the markets.. The Israeli currency shekel was the third worst-performing currency in the world in February. It is the first sign of incoming Israel.