[HIGHLIGHTS] Seventy-five years after the proclamation of the State of Israel: the inexorable illiberal drift?

Protest movement extends from the Israeli left to the army, judges and other liberal professions. Some of these demonstrators also reject the government formed in December by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Netanyahu announced, on March 27, a "pause" in the implementation of judicial reform, to give a "chance (...) to dialogue" On July 19, 2018, Israeli lawmakers approved a controversial bill, which recognizes the right to self-determination only for the Jewish people. The Jewish dimension of Israel would then swallow up its democratic nature, says Dominique Vidal.