Why now? Among other things, the US administration is losing its domestic footing on Iran.
Benjamin Netanyahu
The prime minister was kept at Sheba Medical Center overnight Saturday for observation after collapsing in his Caesarea home.
Within Likud, as well as among coalition partners, it becomes clear that Netanyahu himself is the biggest obstacle to judicial reform.
Failure to pass the state budget by next week would have automatically toppled the Netanyahu government.
Orthodox lawmakers warns his party “will not remain coalition partners with people who bring an entire sector of society into disrepute.”
Secular parties angered over budget agreements that provide billions to Orthodox Jewish schools without requiring full education.
Week after week, Israelis take to the streets, not so much over judicial reform as in protest of the man behind it: Benjamin Netanyahu.
Netanyahu’s right-wing government seems to do even less than its left-wing predecessor to truly end the security threats.
An old saying goes, “You vote Netanyahu, you get the Left.” And now we see that even a firm right-wing government can’t implement its own policies.
Netanyahu seems to genuinely want compromise and consensus on judicial reform, but now has his hands tied by insistent right-wing partners.