Podcast: Peter Berkowitz & Gadi Taub on the Deeper Causes of Israel’s Internal Conflict

To understand the dramas, disagreements, and protests roiling Israeli politics at this moment requires an understanding of the government’s proposed judicial reforms, as well as the history of Israel’s Supreme Court and its relationship to the Knesset. It also requires knowledge of Israeli society, and how the founding generations of Israel’s political leadership—which tended to be Ashkenazi, secular, and oriented to the political Left—have given way to an Israeli population that tends to be more ethnically diverse, more traditional and religious, and oriented toward the political Right.