They call it “salami tactics.”Critics of the plan by Israel’s right-wing government to overhaul the country’s judiciary accuse Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of slicing up the original legislative package in a bid to make it more palatable.
Some protesters made that point by brandishing giant plastic salamis during large-scale protests on Tuesday.
But Mr. Netanyahu may be searching for ways to proceed with the plan more slowly after protests in March brought parts of the country to a virtual standstill.
On Wednesday, the Parliament took a step that maintained the longstanding format of the committee that selects judges.
By using a more piecemeal approach to the judicial overhaul, Mr. Netanyahu may be trying to appease his hard-line coalition partners, who insist on seeing some progress on their goals, while trying to make the changes easier for critics to swallow.
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