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Petition for Constitutional Change in Israel 32 Signatures
Published by Prof. Paul Eidelberg on Aug 17, 2005
Category: Government
Region: Israel
Target: Citizens and Friends of Israel

Petition text:
We, citizens of Israel, Jews and friends of Israel throughout the world, demand basic constitutional reform of Israel's government.

We demand, first, that MKs be individually elected by the voters in multi-district elections.

Second, we demand a Presidential System to replace Multi-party Cabinet Government; and we want the Executive separated from the Legislature by excluding MKs from the President's cabinet.

Third, we insist that judges of the Supreme Court be nominated by the President (advised by a council learned in secular and Jewish law) and confirmed by a democratically elected Knesset.

We further demand, in order to enumerate the powers of these three branches of government, the adoption of a constitution designed for this purpose.

This constitution must integrate Jewish and democratic principles. It must be a constitution that secures religious freedom and facilitates friendship between religious and non-religious Jews.

It must be a constitution that will protect the personal and civil and economic rights of all citizens.

This constitution must also contribute to the restoration of Jewish national pride, which has been so terribly diminished by those who have and have had a vested interest in preserving Israel's inept, divisive, corrupt, oligarchic system of governance.

We therefore ask all fellow citizens and friends of Israel to sign this Petition and thereby support this endeavor to hasten constitutional reform in Israel.

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