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JNS Reporter

Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett Wieghs In On Controversial Judicial Reforms

Several months following his resignation from politics, former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett criticized the proposed legal reforms by the Benjamin Netanyahu-led government on social media Monday. 

“It’s no secret that I believe that for generations, the judicial system has assumed excessive powers, and blocked any attempt at correction,” Bennett posted on Twitter. “I believe that certain changes are needed in the judicial system and in recent years we [the Bennett-Yair Lapid coalition] have even promoted some of them. But you don’t correct a historical distortion with another distortion.” 

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