Benjamin Netanyahu is threatening to send Israel spiraling. We explain what’s happening, why, and what can be done. The story can help answer the common question, "Why does a democratic country need a constitution?" — Check out our sources: https://www.spectacles.news/israels-crisis-isnt-over/ — In Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been aggressively pursuing transformative judicial reforms, in his words, to make Israel more democratic. Meanwhile, thousands have been taking to the streets for the past 15 weeks straight in the largest protests in Israel’s history. We explore the history of Israel’s founding to explain why this country is so strange and why it has no constitution. We’ll also take a look at the reforms and the coalition pursuing them to diagnose what risk these policies may pose to Israeli democracy. Turns out that when you invent a country out of thin air in the 1940s, it’s helpful to write a constitution!