Israel's government will be under intense pressure to provide unpopular concessions to its far-right members, potentially leading to its collapse and its replacement with a center-right government more likely to negotiate concessions with the Palestinians. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government is facing multiple pressures that risk pulling it apart as the coalition's far-right, religious and center-right elements push for competing policies. On Jan. 1, the country's Supreme Court overturned the government's signature judicial reform, annulling the so-called "reasonableness law" that had reshaped the legal doctrine judges were allowed to draw upon to make rulings. This setback sparked a backlash from the ruling coalition's far-right elements, who demanded that the government take up the judicial reform process again despite the ongoing war in Gaza, and despite the reforms' widespread unpopularity among the Israeli public. The same far-right parties, like Religious Zionism, are also trying to convince the government to resettle...
