PM Netanyahu's Assault on Israeli Democracy Courts Disaster

And MK Simcha Rotman D-d-d-dresses down Ambassador Tom Nides

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On Sunday, Religious Zionist MK, Simcha Rotman, chair of the Constitution, Justice and Law Committee of the Knesset, drew a lot of the wrong kind of attention to himself.

In a matter of weeks, the once obscure political-legal activist has become a central figure in the massive overhaul of Israel’s judicial system and, in the view of many, its democracy.