Q&A: What do you think of the compromise framework of Daniel Friedman and Yuval Elbashan for Levin's reform?
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What do you think of the compromise framework of Daniel Friedman and Yuval Elbashan for Levin's reform?
Question
https://www.calcalist.co.il/local_news/article/h1f6vwhyh
Answer
Some of the details are reasonable and some less so. But there is no point discussing it in detail, since this is a nonstarter. The details also are not really important. See my column on this, which will be going up shortly.
I saw that the Israel Democracy Institute came out against it
and argues that this is tyranny of the majority,
since Basic Laws can be enacted over any nonsense, for example to make a thief eligible to be a minister and the like,
and by a pretty simple majority,
and there is no judicial review over Basic Laws,
and a few other issues — see there and be satisfied.