Ex-Mossad chief: Legal reform would turn Israel into ‘country I wouldn’t want to live in’

By Carrie Keller-Lynn 13 February 2023, 2:15 pm

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Carrie Keller-Lynn is a former political and legal correspondent for The Times of Israel

Former Mossad director Tamir Pardo participates in the Meir Dagan Conference for Strategy and Defense at the Netanya Academic College, March 21, 2018. (Meir Vaaknin/Flash90)

Former Mossad chief Tamir Pardo tells The Times of Israel that he fears the government’s judicial overhaul plan would turn Israel into “a country that I wouldn’t want to live in.”

While clarifying that he will not leave Israel nor does he encourage others to emigrate, Pardo says that he thinks the sweeping reform package would move Israel toward “dictatorship.”

“We are betraying our basic values” as outlined by the Declaration of Independence, the former spy chief says. Defending these values has “cost a lot of blood, a lot of soldiers,” he adds.