"The current court needs reform; the list of liberals who think so is almost as long as the list of conservatives. But the court Levin seeks to build is not made to free future Yitzhak Rabins from judicial overreach. It seems tailor-made, as part of its astoundingly far-reaching impact, to allow future Aryeh Deris to — not to put too fine a point on it — steal and lie without consequence." - #HavivRettigGur writing for #TimesOfIsrael

This is a fascinating article about the thinking behind the #Israeli government's proposed #JudicialReform and how this seems to start and end with #AryehDeri.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-3-decades-of-deris-legal-troubles-now-see-israeli-judicial-independence-at-risk/?utm_source=pocket_mylist

How 3 decades of Deri’s legal troubles now see Israeli judicial independence at risk

It was the Shas leader’s corruption imbroglio in 1993 that helped launch the right’s war on judicial activism, a war that now stands to cripple the courts