This is obviously not the view of Likud and certainly not that of the more radical members of Netanyahu's pro-Netanyahu government. This is not a victory for the coalition,' he stressed, 'but a defeat for Israeli democracy'. This has now been cancelled by the government, according to the first angry statement by the head of the opposition, former Prime Minister Yair Lapid. It was thus one of the fundamental checks and balances in the separation of powers. whether such acts are in accordance with the law, in a country that has no written constitution.

In essence, this first reform strips the Israeli Supreme Court of the power it has had until now to uphold or annul government decisions or appointments on the basis of their 'reasonableness', i.e. The Knesset, Israel's parliament, voted on the Reasonableness Law, which marks the first and decisive stage of the reform of the Israeli judicial system, by 64 votes to 0, that is, with each and every one of the votes of the current government coalition, and none against because the entire opposition decided to boycott the vote by not participating in it, after all attempts at negotiation failed. All was ultimately futile, including President Isaac Herzog's visit to the armoured room in Sheba Hospital where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was recovering from the implantation of a pacemaker. Not the nearly 30 mass demonstrations held every week this year, not the march of tens of thousands of Israelis on foot between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, not the harsh letter from the fighter pilots threatening to abandon their posts, not even the warnings from both the White House and a large part of the Jewish communities in the United States.

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