President Yitzhak Herzog spoke today (Thursday) at the Haifa Law Conference and addressed the recent tensions and difficult discourse between the various political camps.
This year the conference dealt with governance, sustainability and law in a period of change.
President Herzog said: "I am shocked by the very thought that today - the fourth of November, the date on which we understood where these words could lead - I should stand here and say again: the word 'traitor' should be removed from political discourse in general. Coalition and opposition, right and left. Our democracy. "
In an interview with Kikar Hashabat, MK Gafni said: "He betrayed his constituents, he betrayed the State of Israel, certainly, in the State of Israel he was right and was left, he completely dismantled the right, he betrayed the State of Israel.
He took right-wing voters and stole votes from them and passed them to the left. "
The president also referred to the level of trust of the judiciary and said that "a state whose judicial system does not gain the trust of the public - is a state whose foundations are undermined."
The president added: "A country in which the integrity of those sitting on the judiciary is in doubt is a country on the brink of a slippery and dangerous slope."
Herzog also argued that "the disputes that arise from time to time between our three authorities can actually be a lever for growth, for improvement, for renewal - not only in our legal system, but in general."
