Netanyahu: I’m doing ‘everything in my power’ to achieve broad judicial consensus

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that he is doing “everything in my power” in order to reach a broad consensus agreement on the judicial overhaul plans.

At a pre-Passover toast at the Defense Ministry, Netanyahu says that Israel’s “defensive powers rest firstly on the military of the people — all parts of the nation are represented in it.”

Netanyahu adds that “today we have a dispute between parts of the nation. This dispute, I hope we will solve in a wide consensus and I am doing everything in my power to achieve this.”

But in a “message to Israel’s enemies,” the prime minister reiterates that “no dispute will prevent us from” protecting ourselves from attacks. Therefore, he says, “we only have one choice — to stand together, to stand united.”

It was the third joint appearance of Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in less than 24 hours, after the prime minister fired Gallant last week but then said yesterday he would delay a decision on keeping him in office.

In his own remarks, Gallant says he is “happy to host [Netanyahu] here… your presence here, always, and particularly now, during Passover, during a busy period of operational activity, has great significance.”