Liat Collins

Some writers complain of an occasional mental block. I suffer from a bottleneck. Every week, there are so many topics rivaling for attention and column inches that it’s a struggle to decide which one should come out first, and hard to control the flow of ideas – or stream of consciousness – that inevitably follows. Several of last week’s stories spilled over into this week.

The question, “Is Israel facing a constitutional crisis?” echoed across the country’s airwaves this week. Arguably, the crisis has existed for a long time – from the days of the 2021 government’s judicial reform proposals and the resulting mass demonstrations, and even further back. There’s a reason, after all, that the reform was raised. Perhaps Israel is not so much facing a constitutional crisis as facing elections, which must be held by October 27. Political camps need battle cries.