High Court Justice Yitzhak Amit: “Democracy dies in small steps.”
Religious Zionist MK Simcha Rothman’s legal representative Avi Segel said in a closing response that in contrast to those acting like there will be an “apocalypse,” Israel was a democracy prior to the reasonableness standard.
Dr. Eliad Shraga, head of the Movement for Quality Government in Israel, opened the arguments of the petitioners against the reasonableness law on Tuesday, presenting the legislation as part of a broader agenda.
The agenda of the government, including the judicial reform, was to ruin the democratic system of Israel with laws like the police law and the laws that sought to allows Shas Chairman Arye Deri to be appointed minister despite his past criminal convictions.
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