Over 80,000 Israelis protest against Supreme Court reform

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

Over 80,000 Israelis protest against Supreme Court reform

15 January 2023

By Emily McGarvey
BBC News

More than 80,000 Israeli protesters have rallied in Tel Aviv against plans by the new right-wing coalition government to overhaul the judiciary.

The reforms would make it easier for parliament to overturn Supreme Court rulings, among other things.

Protesters described Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's proposed changes as an attack on democratic rule.

It follows the instalment of the most religious and hardline government in Israeli history.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-64279349

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Related: Netanyahu defiant despite protests against Israel judicial reform (Al Jazeera)

[Walleye]

1. Beware of right wingers' "reforms".

[SheltieLover]

3. Absolutely!

[Hortensis]

2. Over 80,000 protesters in Tel Aviv alone who don't intend to

let the hard right change "the DNA of the State of Israel."

[mahina]

4. I don't understand why they keep electing him. He's a hateful man.

[Mosby]

5. His party got 32% of the vote.

Israel uses a coalition system, and he built a coalition with the religious and settler parties, bringing him slightly above the needed threshold. Israelis are afraid of a direct election system, they tried it once before and didn't like the result.

[mahina]

6. I thought that would save us one day.

I guess not.

[sabbat hunter]

7. The problem was that

the PM candidate would then still have to cobble together a coalition government, which proved nearly impossible to do.
Israel needs to do two things
1) raise the % of the vote to get in to knesset.
2) go to a ranked voting system.