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Eugene

(62,623 posts)
Mon Jan 16, 2023, 12:24 PM Jan 2023

Over 80,000 Israelis protest against Supreme Court reform

Source: BBC

Over 80,000 Israelis protest against Supreme Court reform

15 January 2023

By Emily McGarvey
BBC News

More than 80,000 Israeli protesters have rallied in Tel Aviv against plans by the new right-wing coalition government to overhaul the judiciary.

The reforms would make it easier for parliament to overturn Supreme Court rulings, among other things.

Protesters described Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's proposed changes as an attack on democratic rule.

It follows the instalment of the most religious and hardline government in Israeli history.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-64279349

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Related: Netanyahu defiant despite protests against Israel judicial reform (Al Jazeera)

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Over 80,000 Israelis protest against Supreme Court reform (Original Post) Eugene Jan 2023 OP
Beware of right wingers' "reforms". Walleye Jan 2023 #1
Absolutely! SheltieLover Jan 2023 #3
Over 80,000 protesters in Tel Aviv alone who don't intend to Hortensis Jan 2023 #2
I don't understand why they keep electing him. He's a hateful man. mahina Jan 2023 #4
His party got 32% of the vote. Mosby Jan 2023 #5
I thought that would save us one day. mahina Jan 2023 #6
The problem was that sabbat hunter Jan 2023 #7

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
2. Over 80,000 protesters in Tel Aviv alone who don't intend to
Mon Jan 16, 2023, 12:35 PM
Jan 2023

let the hard right change "the DNA of the State of Israel."

Mosby

(17,287 posts)
5. His party got 32% of the vote.
Mon Jan 16, 2023, 03:16 PM
Jan 2023

Israel uses a coalition system, and he built a coalition with the religious and settler parties, bringing him slightly above the needed threshold. Israelis are afraid of a direct election system, they tried it once before and didn't like the result.

sabbat hunter

(6,888 posts)
7. The problem was that
Thu Jan 19, 2023, 09:31 PM
Jan 2023

the PM candidate would then still have to cobble together a coalition government, which proved nearly impossible to do.
Israel needs to do two things
1) raise the % of the vote to get in to knesset.
2) go to a ranked voting system.

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