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rational security, chatter, law fair no bull, and the aftermath.

And I think that the next few weeks are going to basically determine whether there is enough political capital

within the dwindling political capital of this coalition to make another push in November.

I'm Benjamin Wittes and this is the LawFair podcast July 26, 2023.

The first phase of Israel's judicial overhaul is now law.

Huge numbers of people are in the streets.

Reservists are resigning.

The stock market is tanking and here in the virtual jungle studio,

we had an All-Star panel to talk about it.

Natan Sachs is the director of the Center for Middle East Policy and a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Program here at the Brookings Institution.

Ami Khai Cohen teaches International Law and National Security Law at the Ono Academic College in Israel.

And Yvall Sheney is the Hirsch-Lowterpact Chair in International Law and former Dean of the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

The latter two are the authors of a string of in-depth articles about the Israeli judicial revolution and the protests they have engendered.

We talked about what the substance of this new law is.

We talked about what's coming next.

Is this the end of the reform sequence or is it just the first slice of Salami?

And we talked about the incredible reaction we have seen from Israeli civil society and from opposition parties.

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