A top lawmaker from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party echoed on Sunday a call by the defence chief to pause a contested judicial overhaul
Dissent from the premier’s own party and cabinet has compounded months of unprecedented mass protests by Israelis who fear the package of reforms could endanger court independence.
But how – or even whether – that as yet-unscheduled vote will proceed has been thrown into question by Likud dissenters. On Sunday, Yuli Edelstein, a Likud lawmaker who heads the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee, also called for a pause to the overhaul to enable discussion and revisions. “We don’t want to bury the reforms,” he added, but “bringing it to a vote before it is clear that there is support for it would be adventurism that is best avoided.”
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