Netanyahu: False threats against judicial overhaul sabotaging economy – By Eliav Breuer, Zachy Hennessey, Tovah Lazaroff (The Jerusalem Post) / Jan 25, 2023
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brushes off warnings of 270 economists that the reforms would damage Israel’s economy.
Netanyahu said at a press conference on Wednesday evening. “The opposite is true,” Netanyahu said as he rebuffed charges that a proposed judicial reform would harm the country’s democratic status and thus lower its credit rating, reduce foreign investment and prompt major companies to relocate to other countries.
“The opposite is true,” Netanyahu said as he rebuffed charges that the judicial reform would harm the country’s democratic status and thus lower its credit rating, reduce foreign investment and prompt major companies to relocate to other countries.
The proposed plan will strengthen the economy and judiciary and upgrade Israel’s “judicial status to that of most of the leading democracies in the world” by restoring it where it was 50 years ago, Netanyahu said
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