Since 2019 Israel has been going through a constitutional spiral, escalating as for February 2023 into a soon-to-be civil war, 75 years after its Historical foundation as the world only Jewish sovereign state. In this talk, Nimrod sharply explains how Israeli society got into this crucial historical moment, ever since the country's first Prime-Minister David Ben-Gurion decision to pass on to future Parliamentary assemblies the task of enacting a constitution to the Israeli people.

 

The crisis Ben-Gurion was asking to avoid back in 1948 boiled up throughout the years up to its inevetible explosion in 2023, escalating sharply since 1995 due to a highly controversial decision made by then Chief Justice of Israel and Holocaust Survivor Aharon Barak (A decision which later on led American Supreme Court Judge Richard Posner to  refer Barak as a “Judicial Pirate”). This miserable order of historical events meet the nowadays personal legal needs of PM Benjamin Netanyahu, which stands accused in charges of corruption and seem by many as seeking to avoid conviction by changing the rules of the game.   

 

Using his past experience as the "Knesset" Parliament Head of House Comittee advisor, a Government official in the previous Government and in his current role as a board member of the "Aguda" NGO, leading the LGBTQ Activist civil front during the turmoil, in this lecture Nimrod gives a 360 degress perspective into how different Israeli state institutions, interest groups and opposing communities see their goals and roles in the current constitutional crisis which came to its focal point in mid-February of 2023.

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This talk fits audiences of all kinds and ranges of knowledge and covers facts and insights on Israeli politics, law, history and Sociology, all simply put into everyday words, easily graspped by everyone who is curious about what is going on in Israel right now. Going out of the talk listeners should better understand the contrasting perspectives of the different fractions of Israeli society over the situation, all of them having strong claims for a needed Democratic change in Israel’s political structure.