President Herzog Issues Judicial Reform Plan, Warns Of Civil War

Israeli President Isaac Herzog has launched a website outlining his proposed changes to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's judicial reform plan which has prompted mass protests.

• Link to the President's speech and updated proposal (Hebrew): https://www.mitve-haam.org/
• Herzog expressed concern over the scope of protests: “Whoever thinks a civil war is something we will not reach does not know what he is talking about.”
• Herzog: "Israeli democracy is the soul of our nation and we must guard it with all vigilance."
• Yair Rosenberg at the Atlantic notes the significance of Herzog's proposal: "Its very existence, coming from a traditionally ceremonial office, shows how unprecedented this precipitous moment is in Israeli history."
• Herzog: "This is not a political compromise on this and that clause. This is not a move for or against the initiators of the legislation or the members of the coalition."
• Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs indicated on Twitter that there the proposal may do little to influence the government: "For the avoidance of doubt, the President's outline is a unilateral outline of the President and not an outline agreed upon in any way by any party in the coalition."