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Public diplomacy minister establishing forum to explain judicial overhaul due to ‘public panic’
Public Diplomacy Minister Galit Distel Atbaryan arrives to a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 15, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
New Public Diplomacy Minister Galit Distel Atbaryan says her first act in office will be to create an “emergency forum” to explain the controversial planned judicial overhaul being pushed by Justice Minister Yariv Levin.
Distel Atbaryan says in a tweet that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “gave me a green light” to move ahead with her proposal.
The minister, who was sworn in last week, blames the media and left-wing parties for “deliberate deception” over the plan that has caused “public panic.”
Therefore, she says, she plans to provide the public with details of the proposal which she says is aimed at “making Israel more democratic.”
