The Israeli opposition claims to be defending “democracy.” The government, however, insists that making the judiciary more responsive to the electorate is “democratic.” Who is right?
It depends on how precisely you frame the question. If the issue is purely about majority rule, the government is right. The big picture, however, is about protecting minorities and individual rights from government overreaching; in other words, the actual issue is about liberal democracy, not any old kind of democracy. On that point, the opposition has a very strong case; the Netanyahu ideal, much like the Orban and Trump visions, is a government with no meaningful guardrails except occasional elections.