Israel’s parliament has voted into law a controversial curb on some supreme court powers submitted by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, the Knesset speaker has said.
The bill passed by a vote of 64-0, the speaker added, after opposition lawmakers abandoned the Knesset plenum in protest.
I know this is like talking about an ex, but I find it absolutely bizarre that the news about Israeli judicial overhaul is not being covered at all on Reddit in r/worldnews. This is a bfd, and not a single post above the fold over there.
I’ve barely seen talk of this anywhere, really.
Israel really needs a written Constitution. The problem is the ultra-Orthodox are not interested. To them, the Torah is the Consitution.
Whelp! There goes democracy!
Huh, I guess living in a dictatorial ethnostate constantly committing genocide against its neighbor has its drawbacks sometimes.
