The Slapdash Nature of the Israeli System

Israel doesn't have the sort of Montesquieuian balance of power between three branches of government, rather it has the executive. The only meaningful check on the executive is really the courts. And that is because we haven't sat down and written a constitution that actually builds out these institutions like other countries do. So this court over the years,. because there really is no other way to check the parliamentary majority has become slowly piecemeal decision after decision immensely powerful. I agree with the Israeli right that it is probably the most powerful court in the West in the democratic world. It's not enough just to weaken it; our system is so simple.