"We'd be Hungary, not a liberal democracy"

Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis · Feb 1, 2023 · 22m

In the first part of our conversation with Professor Yaniv Roznai, we discussed two of the four components of the proposed Judicial Reform: (1) the selection of judges in all of Israel’s courts, not just the Supreme Court, and (2) the “override clause,” or Judicial Review. This part of our conversation was posted on Monday and made available to all subscribers.

In Israel, even the names that one uses for events and ideas can be controversial. Is it “Judea and Samaria” or “the West Bank?”? Are the lands “liberated” or “occupied”? Was 1948 a “War of Independence” or “the Nakba”? The same is…