Israel’s far-right and ultrareligious government has finally succeeded in passing an element of its wide-ranging changes to the judiciary. Legal action, a general strike and possible refusal from upwards of 10,000 military reservists to report for duty are on the cards as the country’s largest ever domestic crisis enters a new chapter.
What happened?
After seven months of debate, the government on 23 July managed to scrap the “reasonableness” clause that allows Israel’s unelected supreme court to overrule government