Netanyahu, Israel's longest serving Prime Minister, is facing a significant crisis
The county’s main airport was forced to halt departures earlier today following a general strike called by the country’s largest union.
Netanyahu, who has held office from 2009 until 2021 and as well as a stint in the 1990s, now faces a major political crisis as pressure from inside and outside seeks to force him into a major u-turn.Last December, Netanyahu announced that he had formed a new Israeli government, returning to power as the head of the most right-wing coalition in Israel’s history.
The government made a whole host of controversial pledges including an expansion of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. The government’s proposed ‘Law of Return’ would tighten the criteria for obtaining Israeli nationality and the government proposed a new law that would permit businesses to refuse to provide services on religious grounds.
In the past, the Supreme Court has made decisions that have angered Israel’s right, such as in 2012 when it over-ruled an exemption that ultra-Orthodox Jews had to the country’s mandatory military service. Both decisions clearly put the Supreme Court at odds with the ultra-conservative and ultra-nationalist elements within Israel’s new government and Netanyahu and his partners are therefore seeking to clip the wings of the court.The controversial bill would essentially allow MPs to pass laws by a simple majority that the Supreme Court cannot overturn.
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