ISRAEL: NETANYAHU DELAYS JUDICIAL OVERHAUL PLAN AFTER PROTESTS

Mon 27 March 2023:

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that a controversial plan to overhaul the country’s judiciary will be delayed after months of protest and opposition from within his own government.

Netanyahu said on Monday the controversial legislation would be postponed until the next parliamentary session.

“I am not ready to divide the nation in pieces,” he said in an address on Monday.

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Netanyahu and coalition trying to achieve goal ‘step by step: Analyst

Political analyst Tal Schneider told Al Jazeera from Tel Aviv that by postponing the judicial overhaul, Netanyahu and his coalition are now trying to achieve their goal “step by step.

“This coalition made a big mistake of putting lots of legislation pieces all together at [in front of] the Israeli public; they did it at once. What I think they’re trying to achieve now, is doing it step by step.

“[With] a longer period of legislation, they think it would be harder for the protests to continue for a long time. This is one of the goals at the moment. Another goal may be to portray or to play around as if they’re willing to do some compromise; it’s like a game for them… they will try to do some maneuvering around this,” Schneider said.

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