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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unleashed what critics dubbed a full-scale assault on his country’s democracy, but now he finds himself under siege. For the past four months, hundreds of thousands of Israelis have marched against his far-right government’s plans to overhaul Israel’s judicial system – a mooted assertion of government control over the courts that plays into the agendas of the ultra-Orthodox and right-wing nationalists in Netanyahu’s coalition.
It has also triggered a deep backlash against the perceived wrecking of the democratic norms that it entails.
On the world stage, where Netanyahu is often most comfortable, the Israeli premier has been
