Ethan Netanyahu, Can You Describe Why the Right Is Coming to the Fore Right Now?

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The extreme right parties and the ultra-religious parties together are for the first time in the governing coalition. This is because there have been four indecisive elections in the last few years. There's an additional factor here, which is that Netanyahu himself has been indicted for a series of corruption charges. He has been accused of also going after the legal system because he had grown bitter about the charges against him.

For months, Israeli citizens—including CEOs, doctors, hedge fund executives, lawyers, and soldiers—have protested in the streets against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to diminish the authority of the nation’s Supreme Court. The government aims to give Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, the power to overrule the court’s decisions with a simple majority vote. It could have far-reaching consequences within Israel—and for its standing as a strong democracy in a volatile region of the world.

Bloomberg’s Israel Bureau Chief Ethan Bronner joins this episode from Tel Aviv to talk about what’s at stake—and why so many Israelis from all walks of life are demanding Netanyahu withdraw the plan.