(Times of Israel) Yonatan Green - With all the alarmism employed by the opponents of Israel's proposed judicial and legal reforms, a closer look at the proposed reforms reveals a measured, justified, and indeed a patently democratic response to decades of illegitimate judicial overreach. They are well within the democratic prerogative of an elected government with a popular mandate for constitutional redesign, and hardly warrant a collective panic attack. Genuine criticism of the flaws in Israel's legal system has been consistent (and consistently growing) since the 1980s and has been forcefully advanced by some of Israel's leading legal scholars. These critics include Prof. Daniel Friedmann, Prof. Ruth Gavison, Prof. Yoav Dotan, and Chief Justice Moshe Landau - all considered political moderates. The writer, an attorney, is Executive Director of the Israel Law & Liberty Forum.
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