want compromise and they have continued with the legislation despite the pleas of the president of israel, herzog. if they will put forward the legislation and pass it as is, there is some likelihood that the supreme court of israel will strike down parts of this legislation or maybe even the entire thing and then what will happen is something truly unprecedented in israeli history a full on constitutional crisis where the majority in our police department in the knesset, the supreme court will strike it down and then we will have a fundamentally dangerous but very important question, who will the authorities in the country, the military, the police, the internal security agency, who will they listen to, the government or the court, the court of law. extraordinary times indeed.
Jewish American leaders are denouncing a proposal by the country’s right-wing government to weaken the power of the country’s judiciary, in ways that some call unusually forceful.
The military leadership is concerned that anger over the government’s plan, with some pilots saying they will skip some training sessions and operations, could diminish military capabilities.