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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