The hospital assured that the state of health of the Prime Minister was “good”. The head of government has pledged to be present on Monday for the vote on the controversial judicial reform bill.
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Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu underwent surgery to have a pacemaker implanted on Sunday, July 23. This operation comes on the eve of a vote in Parliament on a controversial judicial reform bill, at the origin of major demonstrations for several months.
Sheba Hospital assured that the Prime Minister’s health condition was “Good”. “Tomorrow morning [lundi]I will join my friends in Parliament”said the person in a video posted on Twitter on Sunday. His government’s proposed judicial reform, in which the far right holds key positions, has divided the nation and sparked one of the biggest protest movements in Israel’s history since its introduction in January. Opponents see this project as a threat to Israeli democracy.
The risk of an anti-liberal drift
“We want to continue to live in a Jewish and democratic state”said opposition leader Yair Lapid at the start of the plenary debate. “We will not give up on the future of our children”he added, asking to “stop the law” on this reform. The final vote will be on the clause of “reasonableness” government decisions, which allows judges to overrule government decisions.
The protest has intensified in recent days ahead of the Knesset debate which began on Sunday. Tens of thousands of Israeli demonstrators marched on Saturday in Tel Aviv and near Parliament in Jerusalem to hammer home their opposition to this controversial clause in particular. According to the government, the reform aims, among other things, to rebalance powers, by reducing the prerogatives of the Supreme Court, which the executive considers politicized, in favor of Parliament. But its detractors believe that it risks opening the way to an anti-liberal or authoritarian drift.