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Meanwhile, Ofir Winter, a Middle East specialist at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, predicted in remarks to Trends that passage of the judicial overhaul would harm the Abraham Accords signed in September 2020 between Israel and the UAE and Israel and Bahrain. “One of the motivations of the Abraham Accords was economic cooperation,” Winter said. “If...

“The public is always supportive when these things begin, there is always a rallying around the flag phenomenon,” said Chuck Freilich, a former deputy national security advisor in Israel and senior fellow at Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) in Israel, adding that while limited tension may divert attention away from the controversy over the judicial overhaul, any...

A prominent Israeli think tank, the Institute for National Security Studies, also joined the growing chorus of opponents to the judicial overhaul on Tuesday. It said the “changes in their current form will seriously harm” Israel’s military operations, endanger ties with the U.S. and harm the economy.

The Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) think tank issues a first-of-its-kind statement cautioning that the government’s judicial overhaul as currently being advanced “will seriously harm the functioning of the IDF, will reduce Israel’s ability to deal with its enemies, endanger relations with the USA and sabotage the economy.” In what it calls an “urgent strategic...