Has Benjamin Netanyahu's Assault on Israeli Democracy Been Stopped?
On Sunday night, the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, fired his defense minister, Yoav Gallant, a reserve major general whose mother had been a Polish refugee on the S.S. Exodus. His offense was patriotism.The night before, Gallant had appeared on prime-time national television, calling for a "dialogue" on the fate of the Israeli judiciary and a temporary "halt to the legislative process"that is, in effect, assaulting it."The growing rift in our society is penetrating the I.D.F.
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