2023-08-01 19:33:49
Dror Sal’ee wasn’t really interested in politics for a long time, he says. Of course he went to vote. If his candidate won, he was happy, if not, then not. Sal’ee is an Israeli serial founder, has built four successful technology start-ups and later sold them, including to the US company Apple. Many in Israel’s booming tech industry were like him, he says. “For a long time we only concentrated on technology and found politics boring.” Until everything changed in January.
Justice Minister Jariv Levin presented his planned judicial reform to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party. The government’s goal is to weaken the judiciary, particularly the Supreme Court justices, to “restore the balance between the three branches of government,” as Levin put it. In concrete terms, this means, among other things, a reform of the procedure by which judges are appointed in the country and a restriction of the Supreme Court’s ability to reject laws as unconstitutional. The plans triggered violent waves of protest. Since mid-January, 100,000 or more people have taken to the streets in Tel Aviv every Saturday night, including Dror Sal’ee.
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