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The opposition leader also addressed the recent High Court decision restoring the 'reasonableness standard,' saying that the assertion of judicial independence protected Israel on the global stage.
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polemics, things were said that better would not have been said. i think the debate was at times overly passionate. one of the things i think we learned on october 7th is when hamas stormed the border and started massacring our people, they didn t ask what is our position on judicial reform f we like or don t like the prime minister, if we were left of center or right of center. they killed everyone randomly. and today fighting in gaza, in the same tank, you have people who like the prime minister and who don t like the prime minister. you have people who support judicial reform and people are opposed to judicial reform. but i think he october 7th showed us that we are facing external threats that really cast a shadow over any sort of internal debate over judicial reform. there will be a right time in the future once the war is over to discuss the ins and outs of judicial reform. at the moment crucial we focus
this could not have come at a worse time for the benjamin netanyahu government already under extreme pressure and anger from the hostage families who are saying that the government is failing to bring the hostages back and now, this government is staring down a constitutional breakdown and crisis in the middle of this conflict. so what comes next for mr netanyahu and his proposed judicial reform? abc news reporterjordana miller is injerusalem with more. they can t appeal against what the supreme court said but if they chose to, they could ignore the ruling, which would bring a kind of constitutional crisis to israel. he cars let us say there was another decision that the government made to appoint someone who had no experience in a position or