Herzog calls for sides to return to judicial overhaul talks ‘before it’s too late’

28 June 2023, 5:52 pm

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President Isaac Herzog attends the President's Award for volunteering at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, June 14, 2023. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

President Isaac Herzog calls on the government and the opposition to return to talks on the judicial overhaul “before it’s too late.”

Herzog makes his comments in a speech after receiving a briefing from the IDF’s Northern Command.

“We have to do everything to maintain our ability to talk to each other, to have deep conversations and reach understandings within ourselves — because a few kilometers from here there are those who want to destroy everything we have here,” Herzog says in an apparent reference to Iran-backed terror groups in Syria and Lebanon.

“Sometimes we forget to keep in perspective what is important to us in life and what huge challenges we face,” he says.