Netanyahu: Claims Judicial Reform Plans Will End Israel’s Democracy Are ‘baseless’

Then-former Israeli Prime Minister and Likud party leader Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at an election-night event on November 1, 2022 in Jerusalem, Israel. The attempt to restore the “correct balance” between the branches of government “is not the destruction of democracy, but the strengthening of democracy,” he added. AMIR LEVY/JNS

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday rejected as “baseless” claims by critics that his government’s proposed judicial reforms would mark the end of the country’s democracy, and vowed to implement the plan “responsibly.”