Gabbay: Ministers who advanced High Court curtailing bill turning Israel into Turkey

6 May 2018, 4:55 pm

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Zionist Union chair Avi Gabbay slams government ministers who voted to authorize a controversial bill to curtail the powers of the High Court of Justice, suggesting they are destroying Israel’s democracy.

“Every minister who voted today in favor the embarrassment of the supercession law will be remembered as one who tried to turn Israel into Erdogan’s Turkey,” he says in a video posted on his Facebook page following the bill’s approval in the Ministerial Committee for Legislation.

“We will not allow this to happen,” he vows, calling the now-upcoming Knesset vote “a battle for the future of Israel.”