Isaac Herzog serves as Israel’s president, a customarily ceremonial position that he's elevated with his opposition to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has proposed a controversial plan to make the judiciary branch subservient to the Parliament.
Prime Minister of IsraelIn 1967, Israel’s Arab neighbors Egypt, Syria and Jordan thought they could destroy the nascent Jewish state with a concerted military blow. Despite being a steadfast ally, the United States. Israel was on its own, facing possible annihilation, a new Holocaust on a new continent.
Since 2021, Herzog has served as Israel’s president, a customarily ceremonial position that he has elevated with his vociferous opposition to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has proposed a controversial plan to make the judiciary branch subservient to the Parliament, known as the Knesset. His plan would allow the Knesset to review judicial decisions and overturn them with a simple majority. Politicians would also have more say over judicial appointments.
The vacuum left by liberals like Herzog served only the far right, an eclectic collection of parties arguably more influential than Netanyahu’s center-right Likud. “Likud is actually losing power,” Boehm told Yahoo News. “I think it’s disastrous.”banned bread in hospitals during Passover “I think it is a disgrace to the Jewish people — and that is how it looks to the whole world — that a person could rise in the Jewish state and present a program that is very similar to the Nuremberg laws,”Today, Kahane disciple Itamar Ben-Gvir is Israel’s security chief, a position that Netanyahu gave him in exchange for helping form a ruling coalition that allowed the former prime minister to become prime minister once again.
Members of the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem, attend a meeting amid demonstrations over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's proposed judicial overhaul, March 27. of the fissures in Israel society. After weeks of protests, many Israelis are relieved that there is any Band-Aid to speak of. But there are already questions about how long such a stop-gap measure can hold.
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