Michael Bloomberg: Netanyahu is ‘courting disaster’ by pushing judicial overhaul

Former New York City mayor and longtime Israel supporter Michael Bloomberg writes a New York Times op-ed warning that Israel is “courting disaster” with its plans to overhaul the judiciary.
“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is courting disaster by trying to claim that same power, imperiling Israel’s alliances around the world, its security in the region, its economy at home and the very democracy upon which the country was built,” he writes.
The billionaire also says that “I don’t blame” business owners who are pulling money out of the country as a result.
Bloomberg adds that it “is my fervent hope that Mr. Netanyahu will convince his coalition of the need to heed President Isaac Herzog’s plea to pull back and slow down.”