Commentary: For most Israelis, there are no words to describe the consuming fear that, as former Mossad director Tamir Pardo puts it, the country is “on the verge of collapse.”
Part of “the wonder of Israel,” he says, is that “despite the vast differences in worldviews and values, and perhaps also because of threats from outside, we were, in the words of Abraham,For all of Israel’s difficulties and challenges, its social cohesiveness, the basic solidarity of its citizens has never before been in doubt. Israel, the old joke went, was the country where a crazy driver could run you over but the entire highway would stop to give you first aid.
What Grossman fears most is a humpty-dumpty test for Israel, in which all the constituent parts that are being torn asunder by the current crisis underway cannot be reassembled. “These are not just words. Suddenly, we see that what we thought we could always subsume, the lack of similarity between us … [is] staring us in the face.”
Modern Israel is 74 years old. A sense of panic grips many Israelis when asked about its 75th Independence Day, which looms on April 25th. in a fiery, unprecedented speech two weeks in to Netanyahu’s raucous term . “It is designed to deal a fatal blow to the independence of the judiciary and silence it. [If implemented,] the 75th anniversary of Israel’s independence will be remembered as the year in which the country’s democratic identity was dealt a fatal blow.”
Israel as we know it may not make it that far. Netanyahu’s government has committed to passing several of its most ambitious bills, including a Supreme Court Override Law, which would relegate Israel’s high court rulings to social commentary, and a law to stuff the Judicial Appointments Committee with politicians, by Passover, which begins on April 5.
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