Now that the High Court can’t strike down the appointment of government ministers on the basis of a subjective test, what’s next?
Over the barrier in the middle, to the delight of those observers hungry for signs of pre-Tishah B’Av reconciliation, were a few handshakes — Israel’s equivalent of the famed New Year’s Truce of 1914, when British and German soldiers briefly emerged from their trenches to play football.
The dueling demonstrations were both sides’ last-ditch effort before Monday’s vote on the “reasonableness” law — the first tranche of the judicial reform to pass.
So, now that the High Court can’t strike down the appointment of government ministers on the basis of a subjective test, what’s next?
Will the government press on with other, even more contentious parts of the original agenda, or will Bibi quietly bury the whole thing? Will the opposition come to the table over the Knesset’s summer recess and try to achieve some form of compromise to stop the chaos in the streets? Having tasted defeat, will the protest movement lose steam, especially as families head out on summer vacation?
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