Israel’s Overlapping Crises
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
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🗓️ 30 March 2023
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
For months, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been promising a set of legal reforms favored by partners in his far-right coalition government that many fear would spell the end of liberal democracy in the state of Israel. But this week, these efforts hit a roadblock in the form of an unprecedented degree of popular resistance—one that ultimately led Netanyahu to put his reform proposals on hold, at least for the moment.
On Wednesday, Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Natan Sachs convened a panel of experts to discuss these fast-moving developments, including his Brookings colleagues Amos Harel, a leading Israeli military and defense expert, and Shibley Telhami, the Anwar Sadat Professor of Peace and Development at the University of Maryland, and leading Israeli journalist and legal expert Ilana Dayan. To give you some additional background, Lawfare Senior Editor and Brookings Fellow Scott R. Anderson sat down with Natan separately to lay out recent developments and their significance. That conversation will come first, and the panel discussion will follow.
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| 1:00.0 | At any given day, the Knesset, which is chaired by a member of the Mythony House on the Kud party, |
| 1:10.0 | could simply bring to vote for second and third hearing in one day of this bill in a compass. |
| 1:18.0 | Mythony House has given no assurances, no promises, no guarantees that it wouldn't happen. |
| 1:22.0 | He said he's pausing it until the summer, which would allow now for Passover, |
| 1:26.0 | and then for some of the secular Israeli holidays, which are the day of independence, |
| 1:30.0 | but also memorial days for those fallen in service, which is a big deal in Israel, of course, and Holocaust Day. |
| 1:36.0 | Those could pass, those are the more unifying days usually. |
| 1:40.0 | And then in the summer session of the Knesset, he says he will pass it. |
| 1:44.0 | In the meantime, he's giving an opportunity for the President to convene negotiations between the coalition and the opposition. |
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