“This is the most important battle of my life,” says Erez Nevo, a lifelong warrior for Israel who has joined the masses of military and intelligence veterans protesting the country’s radical, right-wing government. The crowds grew in size and anger when the Knesset on Monday passed a law that weakens the Supreme Court and Israel’s claim to be the Middle East’s sole democracy.
The fallout also threatens to diminish the stability of the Israel Defense Forces (I.D.F.) as the region’s pre-eminent military power, because a crisis of morale has erupted.
