Netanyahu leaves hospital as Israel faces a key vote — and a crisis — over divisive legal changes
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was released from the hospital Monday after an emergency heart procedure and now faces an unprecedented national crisis ahead of parliament’s vote on the first major piece of legislation to remake the country’s justice system.
Demonstrators, many of whom feel the very foundations of their country are being eroded by the government’s plan, stepped up their opposition, blocking a road leading up to parliament. Businesses shuttered their doors in protest at the vote.
Driven by a regulating union composed of ultranationalist and also ultra-religious events, the judicial overhaul has actually separated Israel, evaluating the fragile social connections that bind the nation, rattling the communication of its effective army and also repetitively attracting …