Israel's Opposition Leader Yair Lapid on Monday blasted the newly-passed judicial reform bill which seeks to limit the Supreme Court's power to overrule government decisions, promising to petition the High Court of Justice against the legislation.
"This is a complete breaking of the rules of the game...The government and coalition can choose what direction the state goes in, but it can't decide the character of the state," Lapid said. "This is a sad day, a day of our home's destruction, of needless hatred, and look at the coalition celebrating" he added, describing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as "weak."
"There is no prime minister in Israel. Netanyahu has become a puppet on the strings of extremists and messianists," Lapid stressed.
