Some of the most insistent opposition is coming from the tech sector, which has become the economic heart of the country
judiciary has brought the powerful prime minister into a deepening conflict with the country’s vaunted tech sector and withThe latest plea for Mr. Netanyahu to reconsider came from Israel’s President Isaac Herzog, who in an unusual Sunday night address pleaded for a compromise plan that could modestly curb court powers to overturn legislation while preserving judicial independence.
Although Israel’s President occupies a largely ceremonial role, Mr. Herzog joins Nobel laureates, past governors of Israel’s central bank, military generals, tech entrepreneurs, a former Mossad chief and former heads of its National Security Council in condemnation of Mr. Netanyahu’s proposed changes, which would allow a simple legislative majority to overrule the Supreme Court and empower politicians to appoint judges..
Political scientists suggest success is likely for a cause that can bring 3.5 per cent of a population to the streets, “and we are very close to 3.5 per cent,” said Zvi Eckstein, an economist and scholar who is a former deputy governor of the Bank of Israel. But Mr. Netanyahu’s proposal has created widespread fear that tech’s future will dim. Laptop-equipped workers can easily decamp for other places. So can venture capitalists whose cash Israel has spent decades wooing. “Reversing that is very easy,” said Dror Salee, a serial entrepreneur who has been a prominent leader in an Israeli high tech workers’ protest task force.
The innovation institute has sought to expand tech’s reach in Israel, seeking to ensure the country is “not becoming too much of a dual economy, where parts of Israel are high-tech and the rest is the third-world,” he said. Still, he refuses to say which sectors of the Israeli economy support the proposed changes. “It’s not a fair question,” he said, suggesting business leaders wish to avoid blowback. He likened detractors to Joseph Stalin.
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