Proposed moves by Israel’s hard-right coalition strike at the independence of country’s judiciary
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Photo: AP
Kim Sengupta© Independent.co.uk
The protests in Israel over the proposed overhaul of the judicial system are the largest and most fundamentally important in the country’s history, with repercussions that are going to continue for a long time.
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