Ex-Mossad Chief Tells CNN’s Amanpour ‘There’s Every Grounds’ For Israeli Soldiers to Refuse to...

Former Head of the Mossad Efraim Halevy tore into Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday night. Notably, Netanyahu appointed Halevy to lead Israel’s national intelligence agency during his first term beginning in the late 1990s.

Amanpour and Halevy discussed the Netanyahu government’s proposed judicial reform law that would place supreme court judge appointments in the hands of leaders of the Knesset and allow for a simple majority of the Knesset to nullify any supreme court ruling. Critics have denounced the reform as “anti-democratic” warning such a law would strip the court of its power and effectively leave the prime minister unchecked.