Constitution

The Netanyahu government’s dangerous and unprecedented legislative blitz will not only harm human rights but is pushing the country toward a tipping point from which there will be no turning back.

Kohelet said that consensus was important and that it had engaged with experts with opposing opinions in order to find such compromises.

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

The Declaration of Independence has no formal legal status in the Israeli government system, which Lapid proposed should be changed by making the document the first chapter of a new constitution.

NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Israel is struggling to define itself and simultaneously deal with physical threats.

Barak Medina: "We suggest that instead of rewriting or writing a new constitution, we may simply try to change the formal status of the Declaration of Independence."

The current crisis can be an opportunity to rectify the constitutional vacuum through broad compromise on the rules of the game.

We appeal to President Herzog to convene the Zionist constitutional convention of our time, to wrest true democracy from the liberal theocracy of which we hypocritically boast in vain.

What is being proposed as part of the Israeli government's judicial reform plan and how does it stack up to the US?

The judicial reform crisis should be turned into a moment of renewed unity and rebirth of democracy.