In battle over Court, Left won't go quietly
The response wasn’t long in coming, bringing forward the true spearheads of resistance.
Yesh Atid chair Lapid and National Union chair Gantz both issued fiery statements, but the one who grabbed the headlines was Aharon Barak, former president of the High Court and father of the 1995 constitutional revolution that gave the Knesset’s Basic Laws constitutional status, and the High Court the power to overturn Knesset laws and ultimately supplant the legislature at the top of the political hierarchy.
In a melodramatic interview, the 86-year-old Barak went all out. “If my death will end the crisis, then put me in front of a firing squad,” he said, calling Levin’s reforms “the destruction of the Third Temple.”
Barak’s comments drew a fiery response from Levin: “He talks about firing squads and tanks. My response is that our reforms are not being ushered in by tanks, but by the will of the voters.”
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