Lapid at Knesset: Stop overhaul legislation right now and let’s go talk with Herzog

Opposition leader Yair Lapid calls on the government to immediately halt votes on its slate of bills to radically overhaul the judiciary and enter dialogue tonight or tomorrow.

“The prime minister wants us to put a proposal on the table? Here’s a proposal: Stop the legislation, now, today, before the vote,” Lapid says in the Knesset plenum. “Instead of voting, let’s go to the President’s Residence, and announce that we are staying there until the State of Israel has a constitution.”

President Isaac Herzog has been leading calls for dialogue between the opposition and government over the highly controversial judicial shakeup.

“Instead of the enormous crisis you are creating — of values, the economy, security and socially — let’s together create a document that will unite the people of Israel,” Lapid adds.