Tisha B'Av one year ago: the good old days were already not so good; even last year, people were already weeping over what had happened to our country

Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis · Aug 13, 2024 · 3m

The image above, which says שישה באב “Shisha B’Av,” or “The Sixth of Av,” went viral a year ago on Israeli social media, just three days before the Ninth of Av. That was the day that the Knesset, despite overwhelming public objection, passed the first of the changes to Israel’s judicial system—a plank called the “reasonability clause.” Many of us, myself included, had been certain that the Knesset would balk at the last moment. With the country coming apart at the seams, they’d step back from the abyss.

But then we learned. Yariv Levin and Simcha Rothman, who were leading the judicial reform…