A proposed overhaul of Israel’s judiciary, which threatens to undermine the nation’s democracy, has prompted the largest street protests in decades. Host Carol Castiel and VOA senior analyst, Mohamed Elshinnawi, talk with Jerusalem-based, Nimrod Goren, who is a senior fellow for Israeli Affairs at the Middle East Institute, about the domestic and international ramifications of a possible judicial overhaul and other extremist policies by the right-wing coalition government of Benjamin Netanyahu.
Israel in Crisis
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A proposed overhaul of Israel’s judiciary, which threatens to undermine the nation’s democracy, has prompted the largest street protests in decades. Host Carol Castiel and VOA senior analyst, Mohamed Elshinnawi, talk with Jerusalem-based, Nimrod Goren, who is a senior fellow for Israeli Affairs at the Middle East Institute, about the domestic and international ramifications of a possible judicial overhaul and other extremist policies by the right-wing coalition government of Benjamin Netanyahu.