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Today we will have a debate the current situation in . Since weeks people in and other cities demonstrate against the legal reform of the new government

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What does the government want to change?
▶️seeks full power over the appointment of the nine-member committee that selects the judges of the Supreme Court

▶️wants to give the the ability to override court decisions by a simple majority

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▶️give ministers authority to appoint legal advisors in the ministry as opposed to the attorney general doing so.

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Why is it problematic?

Experts agree that a reform of the judiciary system in is necessary, however, not in the shape, form, and process now proposed by the government.

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▶️The Ultra-Orthodox resent the Supreme Court for putting limits as to their priorities : complete exemption from military service for religious men studying the Torah, more power of religious leaders, gender separation in public places

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▶️Right wing nationalist forces: resent the Supreme Court for striking down laws that legalise settlements in the West Bank (NB: the current government in their coalition agreement outlined its claim over the whole West Bank)

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▶️Netanyahu: evade punishment from bribery, fraud and breach of trust and the respective trial that started in 2021

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And:
▶️Generally , the + community, minorities as well as business/ tech sector that relies on investor confidence risk to lose from a weakened judiciary

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We as @GreensEFA are worried about and demand :

▶️'s membership in the club of democratic countries is its crucial political, security and economic asset for itself.
▶️’s relations with the are defined as a values-based partnership between liberal democracies,

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and as an and partnership, a fabric of mutual trust in institutions that depends on the rule of law. The democratic character of the State of must therefore be guarded with the greatest of vigilance

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