Reasonableness in the Crosshairs
Israel Policy Pod
English - July 17, 2023 16:00 - 53 minutes - 36.9 MB - ★★★★ - 146 ratingsPolitics News News Commentary israel policy israeli-palestinian middle east jerusalem jewish political foreign affairs foreign policy Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Tel Aviv-based journalist and Israel Policy Forum Policy Advisor Neri Zilber hosts Prof. Suzie Navot, the vice president for research at the Israel Democracy Institute, to analyze the renewed push by the Netanyahu government to overhaul Israel's judicial system. They discuss how the reasonableness test is used and why it’s important, the impact on government decisions and appointments if it's eliminated, what the government's future plans likely are, and her experience participating in the judicial compromise talks at the President's Residence.
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