The Disagreement Between the Prime Minister and the State

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The vast majority of people want some version of judicial reform in Israel. American Jews don't have the deep context here because they don't study Israeli constitutional or Israeli judicial law. The difference is, what kind of reform is appropriate in this moment? Outside your community, it feels like there's a lot of people criticizing Netanyahu saying that he's taking Israel to the brink of being an autocratic state.

Far-right judicial reforms have inspired what might be the largest protests in the history of Israel. If adopted, the reforms could spell the end of democracy in the world’s only majority-Jewish country.

This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Matthew Collette, Victoria Chamberlin and Siona Petrous, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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