Aug 9

👉🏽 Channel 12 news reported the Mirsham organization poll of medical residents and interns found 65% will relocate immediately or soon; only 14% said they would not leave Israel.

👉🏽 Should the country reach a constitutional crisis because the government won’t abide by the court rulings, there needs to be a general strike, including the Histadrut, universities, high-tech, and law firms, said Professor Ariel Porat, president of Tel Aviv University. Many of Israel’s leading law firms signed on to Porat’s strike. (JPost) White Coats, representing the doctor community, has promised a similar strike if the court rulings are not upheld. PM Netanyahu, in his interviews with the US media, has made it clear that it is not a foregone conclusion that the government will abide by the court ruling if it is against the Coalition position.

👉🏽 In a Channel 12 interview, chief spokesperson for the IDF said the thousands not reporting for volunteer service have caused harm to the army’s readiness, particularly the Air Force.

👉🏽 Times of Israel reports that in 2023, government spending spiraled to more than NIS 16 billion ($4.3 billion), or 6.8% year-on-year to NIS 263.4 billion ($71 billion). Bloomberg reports that PM Netanyahu’s assurances about limiting further judicial reform have not calmed marketplace qualms.

👉🏽 In an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, Likud Foreign Minister Eli Cohen talked about a potential deal with Saudi Arabia, saying if the US signed a defense pact with The Saudis as part of normalization with Israel, Gulf nations would be reassured of protection from Iranian aggression. Globes analyzes the possibilities:https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-whats-at-stake-in-normalization-with-saudi-arabia-1001454245

👉🏽 While rumors circulate that cooler voices in Likud may prevail, Maariv relates that PM Netanyahu is being pressured by 850+ Likud members, instigated by Justice Minister Yariv Levin’s Dror faction, to restore the original, more aggressive reform plan, including changing the Judicial Selection Committee.

👉🏽 Ynet saying that in order to prevent the Supreme Court hearing September 7th re forcing the Knesset to convene the committee for the selection of judges, there will be “last minute moves to prevent the hearing,” including a petition by Likud Justice Minister Yariv Levin to Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut with a compromise plan regarding judge selection. Some news reports are saying the Coalition now has only 60, not the necessary 61, to successfully implement a change to the committee system; others are saying they have 64.

👉🏽 Dozens of Hebrew University brain researchers called on academia to announce that they will not open the next academic year, YNet reports.

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