Netanyahu opens to continue negotiating the “necessary” judicial reform and calls for unity

July 24 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, celebrated this Monday the “necessary” approval of the first law of the judicial reform and has extended his hand to the opposition to continue negotiating with a view to the future phases of the reform.

“Despite everything, my friends, we will continue trying to negotiate and reach agreements,” Netanyahu said in a speech to the nation reported by the Israeli press. This law is “necessary” for the government to continue governing, according to the Israeli leader.

“This is not the end of democracy,” he stressed, referring to the approval this Monday of the law that limits the “criterion of reasonableness” and therefore the powers of the courts to annul government decisions that they consider threaten the democratic system.

Netanyahu has blamed the opposition for the lack of agreement, but has set himself the goal of reaching a “general agreement” with the opposition on the rest of the judicial reform by the end of November.

The Israeli president has taken the opportunity to make a new call for unity and to continue being “brothers” despite the differences of opinion.

Thus, he has asked that the Armed Forces stay out of the political debate, in reference to the recent announcements by reservists not to serve in protest of the judicial reform. “We have a nation, a home, a people. On the eve of Tisha B’Av we must safeguard them above all else,” he pointed out, referring to the main day of fasting and abstinence in rabbinic Judaism.