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#Israel / Global Index: Israel falls out of the liberal democracy category for the first time in over 50 years; substantive decline also include freedom from #torture

With the question of whether a “Jewish State” can even be a real democracy put aside, Israel is no longer even that. Strangely, Israel seems to to have finally assimilated in the Middle East, but in the worst possible way.

[…] The Middle East and North Africa (#MENA) remains the most autocratic region in the world, with 98% of its population residing in autocracies. A large share (45%) lives in closed autocracies such as #Iran, #Libya, and Saudi Arabia, but 53% live in electoral autocracies, such as #Türkiye and Iraq. 2% of the region's population reside in #Tunisia, which is in the “grey zone” electoral autocracy category. The remaining 2% live in Israel. Notably, Israel lost its long-time status as liberal democracy in 2023. It is now classified as an electoral democracy – for the first time in over 50 years. This is primarily due to substantial declines in the indicators measuring the transparency and predictability of the law, and government attacks on the judiciary.

[…] Among other things, Israel’s Knesset passed a bill in 2023 stripping the Supreme Court of the power to declare government decisions unreasonable. Indicators that are in substantive decline also include freedom from torture.

https://v-dem.net/

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As per #GlobalNews

#BREAKING

«#Israel's #SupremeCourt has overturned a law that prevented courts from overruling the government — a key feature of #BenjaminNetanyahu’s #JudicialOverhaul.

In Monday’s 8-7 majority decision, the court narrowly voted to overturn a law passed in July that prevents judges from overturning government decisions they deem “unreasonable.”»

https://globalnews.ca/news/10198455/israel-supreme-court-judicial-overhaul/?utm_medium=Twitter&utm_source=%40globalnews

Old Video Showing Car Ramming Into #Protesters Falsely Linked to #IsraelHamasWar;
This video is from September and shows #JudicialOverhaul protestors getting hit by a #car in #TelAviv, #Israel.

https://www.thequint.com/news/webqoof/unrelated-protest-video-from-israel-falsely-linked-to-the-war-between-israel-and-hamas-fact-check

「 The #KaplanForce protest group also denounced Levin, accusing him of “sticking a knife in the backs” of #ReserveSoldiers [...] and urging members of the #JudicialSelectionCommittee not to play ball with his “extortion attempts.”

“The coup that #Levin has led over the past year ripped the nation to shreds,” [...] “He will forever be remembered in disgrace as the person who tried to destroy Israeli #democracy — and failed.”」

#Israel #Netanyahu #JudicialOverhaul

https://www.timesofisrael.com/levin-said-pushing-for-jurists-who-helped-draft-overhaul-to-be-supreme-court-judges/