In the aftermath of a controversial Knesset vote amending the Israeli judiciary’s “reasonableness clause,” commentator Dan Senor said:
“Thirty weeks of massive protests. Hundreds of thousands of Israelis turning out every Saturday night since January…. Israel’s 150 largest companies staging a strike…. Threats from army reservists that they would not any longer volunteer to serve…. Is Israel falling apart?”
An alternative perspective has been offered by Haviv Rettig Gur of the “Times of Israel”: Israel, a young nation, is not “falling apart,” he says, but rather “maturing.” In the absence of a constitution, after decades of a tug-of-war power struggle between the courts and the Knesset, Israel is struggling to seek resolution.
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How should American-Jewish supporters of Israel respond to the judicial overhaul controversy?

By Rabbi Alan Silverstein, Ph.D. MERCAZ Olami, President

But things feel different today. Same same - but different. The beauty of the fields, forests, grazing cows along the way; the pleasure of seeing our young grandchildren playing together and our kids building their lives was the same as they have been for years. But the recent vote of 64 to 0 which begins the transformation of the Supreme Court –a basic institution in a democracy—to a tool of increasing the power and control of the government, shades everything in a new, dark light.

Same Same –But Different

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Over the past few months, our team was able to achieve many of our goals at the National Institutions. However, there is still much work to be done and achieved In order to strengthen our movement and our presence at the National Institutions.

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