Israel’s Deep State Is Undemocratic, Unaccountable, and Completely Indispensable https://mosaicmagazine.com/essay/israel-zionism/2020/09/israels-deep-state-is-undemocratic-unaccountable-and-completely-indispensable/

How does Israel keep functioning despite constant political turmoil? Meet the opaque group of unelected bureaucrats that the country’s politicians rely on to save it from themselves.

September 8, 2020 | Haviv Rettig Gur

About the author: Haviv Rettig Gur is the senior analyst for the Times of Israel.

Amir Yaron, governor of the Bank of Israel, with Shaul Meridor, then-head of the Budgets Department, at a conference in Tel Aviv on December 31, 2019. Flash90.

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