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De-Mo-Krat-Ya!

JL;DR SUMMARY Moshe Koppel explores the contentious topic of judicial reforms in Israel and the debate over the nature of democracy. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Judicial ReformIsraeli DemocracyAharon BarakPolitical PowerKohelet Policy ForumPolitical DebateElected OfficialsPublic InterestSubstantive Democracy

Places mentioned

Beit Shemesh, Southern District, Israel
"You dont seriously think my political preferences should count the same as those of a taxi driver from Beit Shemesh, do you?"
Israel
"Four leaders of the Kaplan protests against judicial reform in Israel had asked to meet with me and my colleagues at the Kohelet Policy Forum to demand that we renounce those reforms and to threaten blood in the streets if we didnt."
United States
"As an American expat, Id have been rattled by that sentence regardless of who had said it."

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