Israel's first judicial reform isn't the issue. Netanyahu's weakness is

The Knesset parliament of Israel enacted a controversial judicial reform law with a 64-0 vote on Monday. The opposition left the chamber in protest, allowing members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition to provide unitary assent. The law means that Israel's Supreme Court will no longer be able to rule against parliamentary or executive action on the basis of that action being "unreasonable."

The moral and political impact of this law is exaggerated. While many of those now protesting on Israeli streets argue that this change threatens their democracy, there is an equally strong case to be made that some reform was needed. After all, is it right or even democratic that an unelected Supreme Court can obstruct an elected government's actions based only on the Court's subjective view of those actions as "unreasonable"? As a side note, this saga is yet another argument in favor of a written Constitution in which the Supreme Court rules on the compatibility of legislation to primary law.