Israel’s Crisis of Democracy

Israel’s Crisis of Democracy Rachel Moltz Wed, 08/02/2023 - 13:37 In July 24, a bitterly divided Knesset (with its 120 members) passed a law that limited the power of the Supreme Court of Israel to invoke a judicially manufactured “unreasonableness” standard to maintain a level of control over the political branches of government, a feature found nowhere else among Western democracies. The Knesset vote was 64–0, as the opposition walked out, protesting that this law amounted to a dangerous threa