Strategist Moshe Debby has said that he believes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants a coalition representative to be elected to the Judicial Selection Committee, alongside the opposition representative.
Speaking with Israel National News – Arutz Sheva, Debby said that Netanyahu “wants quiet.”
“There are national security tasks which are more important and more existential to the State of Israel, and he needs to deal with them,” Debby explained. “There is the Iranian issue which is acute, he needs to travel to the US to visit President Biden, because there are things that only the two of them can solve. So Netanyahu wants to put this issue behind him. The judicial reform has caused him damage at levels which he did not imagine he would reach.”
Debby also noted that there are some Likud MKs who are not fully happy with the reform and who are not interested in it.
“The economy responded immediately through the stock market and so on. The haredi community has been very hard hit by the cost of living, and the rise in interest which has hurt mortgage payments. These issues hurt all of the sectors and Netanyahu wants to do things differently. He lost control and today he wants to finish with the issue,” the strategist added.

Debby also explained that the decision by opposition leader MK Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid) and MK Benny Gantz (National Unity) to pause the talks on the judicial reform is logical, since the talks are not progressing in any case.
“Who would have believed that the Judicial Selection Committee would interest the entire nation of Israel? Who does it interest?” he questiond. “The dissonance is that this is a government which knows what is at stake. Yesterday, according to reports there was a bombing in Syria, we are facing the threat of Iran with long-range missiles, and still, the government is not serving the good of the people. Its job is to serve all of us, whether we voted for it or not, and the behavior here is not such. I see frustration in the Likud as well, and in Shas and United Torah Judaism.”
In his opinion, Netanyahu should aim to reach an agreement with his coalition partners to delay the reform, and after he succeeds, to go back to business as usual. “When he was in charge and managed the issues we saw that the coalition gained strength. With the former Netanyahu, this loss of control would not have happened.”