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Mar 18, 2025, 3:42 PM

Putting Knesset members above the law

MK Tally Gotliv speaks during a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee at the Knesset, Jerusalem, November 19, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

A proposed bill giving MKs freedom to break the law and commit civil offenses puts the fox in charge of guarding the henhouse

Nov 26, 2023, 4:30 PM

The country that rescues its people wherever they are

Saleh Badriya, in his paramedic's uniform, poses with volunteers who helped organize an aid convoy from the Druze town of Daliyat al-Karmel in northern Israel to the city of Sderot in the south, October 8, 2023. (Courtesy, Saleh Badriya)

For all the discrimination in the 'nation-state law,' its clause including all Jews and all Israeli citizens in its global care is essential

Jun 22, 2023, 2:48 PM

What’s wrong with criminalizing anti-Haredi incitement?

Demonstrators argue with ultra-Orthodox Jews during a protest march in B'nei Brak against funding to ultra-Orthodox parties in the state budget. May 17, 2023 (Flash90)

Yes, Israel's anti-racism laws need to be extended to vulnerable groups –including women and the LGBTQ community

Dec 4, 2022, 2:24 PM

61 cats guarding the cream

Many loaded guns are lying on the political table today: an override clause; curtailment of the High Court’s power of administrative review of government actions; a change in the mechanism for selecting judges; and a downgrade of the attorney...

Nov 11, 2022, 3:13 PM

All you need to know about Israel’s ‘override clause’

The imbalance of no checks and balances. (iStock)

With no integral checks and balances to the Israeli system, this so-called reform would leave human rights and minorities susceptible to abuses by the majority

May 25, 2020, 3:28 PM

A prime minister on trial: questions and answers

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on trial at the District Court in Jerusalem on May 24, 2020. (Amit Shabi/POOL)

How long will the proceedings take? What about immunity? And has there ever been a sitting PM anywhere who faced criminal charges? (Yes, one)

Jan 3, 2020, 1:08 PM

A decade of anti-democratic legislation

Likud MK Oren Hazan takes a selfie with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, and MK David Bitan, right of Netanyahu, after the passage of the nation-state law at the Knesset on July 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Olivier Fitoussi)

On loyalty declarations, sanctioned Jews-only communities, and the Nation-State law that undermined the Declaration of Independence

Jul 31, 2019, 3:58 PM

The nation-state law, one year later: What has changed?

The Basic Law: Israel the Nation-State of the Jewish People turned one. What, if anything, has changed in that time? From a practical standpoint, the law’s ramifications are not yet clear. Neither its opponents nor its supporters ever claimed that...

Mar 14, 2019, 12:46 PM

Whatever happened to the Likud’s liberal values?

The Likud Party's Constitution defines it as "a national-liberal party advocating for the ingathering of exiles, the integrity of the Jewish homeland, human freedom, and social justice." Along with the goals of maintaining the integrity of the homeland, developing the country,...

Nov 23, 2014, 7:56 PM

A Ready Alternative to the Nation-State Law

The Israeli government coalition is being asked to weigh in on a truly fundamental issue that is a matter of principle, concerning the identity of the State of Israel, democracy, and relations between religion and state. The proposed Basic Law:...

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About Me

Dr. Amir Fuchs is head of the Defending Democratic Values project at the Israel Democracy Institute.