Is Israel Headed Towards Civil War?

President Isaac Herzog thinks so, using those very words recently, talking about the huge anti-government protests that have gripped Israel.
Image: screenshot ABC Radio
Image: screenshot ABC Radio
Yossi Klein Halevi is a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. He is co-host, together with Donniel Hartman, of the Hartman Institute’s podcast, “For Heaven’s Sake” – the number one Jewish podcast in the English-speaking world. Halevi’s 2013 book, “Like Dreamers,” won the Jewish Book Council’s Everett Book of the Year Award. His latest book, “Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor,” is a New York Times bestseller and has appeared in a dozen languages.

Is Israel really on the brink of a civil war?

President Isaac Herzog thinks so, using those very words recently, talking about the huge anti-government protests that have gripped Israel.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has now delayed his controversial reforms to the Supreme Court but the situation is a tinderbox.

Yossi Klein Halevi from the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem wrote about the crisis for ABC Religion & Ethics online here.

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