This week, the largest protests in Israel’s history forced Netanyahu’s ruling coalition to pause its judicial reform. Can the government that brought the country to the brink of civil war be trusted to advance a much needed judicial reform process? What needs to happen to build a civil society and create a coalition government that can lead Israel through the next phase? Donniel Hartman, Yossi Klein Halevi, and Elana Stein Hain discuss the internal mechanisms driving Netanyahu’s coalition government, the key aspects of this reform that make it so problematic, and the limitations of politics on human conscience. Listen here:
For Heaven is a podcast from the Shalom Hartman Institute’s iEngage Project that revives the lost art of Jewish debate for the sake of demonstrating content, not divisiveness. The podcast takes its name from the concept of Machloket me shemayim“Dissent for heaven’s sake.”
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