Rear Vision — How History Shaped Today

Checks and Balances—the crisis surrounding Israel's judicial reform

08.13.2023 - By ABC listenPlay

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Israel has two institutions underpinning its political system - its parliament, the Knesset, and its judiciary - but it doesn’t have a written constitutions setting out the powers of these two institutions. Now the right-wing coalition led by Benjaman Netanyahu is determined to assert the power of the Knesset over the courts and its leading to a constitutional crisis.

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