MK Tzvi Sukkot (Religious Zionism party) said that the hopes he had for President Isaac Herzog’s proposal for a compromise on the government’s planned judicial reforms were dashed when the President unveiled his proposal last night (Wednesday).
“We put our hopes on the president. He managed to convince us that he is really trying to mediate a compromise. There is no sense in what he did yesterday,” Sukkot said in an interview with Kol Chai radio.
However, he stated that there was no choice but to negotiate. “We have to talk, there is no choice. We are one people. We must bring reforms, but through agreements.”
Sukkot condemned the left-wing protests against the judicial reforms, comparing the protestors to people who drill holes in the bottom ships until they sink. Parts of the left have gone crazy. They are encouraging money to be taken out of the country, involving the world in our internal affairs. This is how the country is destroyed.”

“There will be reform,” he declared, adding that he hopes to pass the reforms with as broad a consensus as possible because he is “afraid of a clash between the government and the court. I hope we are not on our way there. Yesterday I thought the president would present something balanced. I want to believe that the Supreme Court will also understand that it won’t gain anything if he rejects the reforms outright.”
He dismissed concerns over tensions within the coalition. “The coalition is stable, we have a majority. Even if we reach an extreme scenario with regard to the Supreme Court, we will succeed in that too.”