On video: Herzog called for a halt to the legislation of the legal reform (Photo: Leam)
President Yitzhak Herzog gave a speech to the nation this evening (Sunday) on the background of the conflict and protests following the legal reform.
In his speech, Herzog warned of "constitutional and social collapse."
In his speech, Herzog said that the reform should not be completely ignored and rejected, but that "all of its parts in its current form raise deep concerns about the potential for a negative impact on the democratic foundations of the State of Israel."
Finally, Herzog called for negotiations aimed at regulating the relations between the authorities, and presented five principles that would serve as the basis for those negotiations.
Communications Minister Dr. Shlomo Karai attacked Herzog's speech and his call for a compromise between the parties and said that "during the time of the fraudulent government, when the systems of the living God were abused and blasphemed, I never heard anyone offer a compromise.
When they persecuted the priests and Torah scholars, when they trampled on the Likudniks wherever they were, the tradition, the Zionism, there was no call for dialogue.
Hypocrisy is the name of the game and we have long since finished participating in it.
Continue with the reforms with all our might."
On the other hand, the chairman of the state camp, Benny Gantz, supported Herzog's words. Answering the needs of the citizens and not the whims of the politicians.
If the legislation is stopped and we are all invited to the president's house for a real conversation, we will be among the first to show up."
The Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) published a statement of support for the principles and compromise outline proposed by Herzog.
In a statement issued on behalf of the head of the institute, Prof. Manuel Trachtenberg, and the director of the institute, General Tamir Himan, it was stated that "Israeli society is divided and torn - all parties must come to an immediate dialogue out of a genuine desire to preserve the ethos we all share, which is the Jewish and democratic State of Israel. The president's call is perhaps The last chance to prevent the widening of the rift in Israeli society to dimensions we never knew existed and a fatal injury to national strength that would harm the national security of the State of Israel."
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