President Joe Biden has spoken with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to 'express concern' and encourage compromise over a planned overhaul of Israel's judicial system that has sparked widespread protests across the country.
The White House said Biden reiterated U.S. concerns about the measure to roll back the judiciary’s insulation from the country’s political system, in a call a senior administration official described as “candid and constructive.” There was no immediate indication that Netanyahu was shying away from the action, after rejecting a compromise last week offered by the country’s figurehead president.
The official, who requested anonymity to discuss the leaders’ private call, said that Biden stressed to Netanyahu that “reforms like this should carry as broad consensus as possible.” Netanyahu said Sunday the legal changes would be carried out responsibly while protecting the basic rights of all Israelis. His government — the country’s most right-wing ever — says the overhaul is meant to correct an imbalance that has given the courts too much power and prevented lawmakers from carrying out the voting public’s will.Critics say it will upend Israel’s delicate system of checks and balances and slide the country toward authoritarianism.
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