Abstract
Despite being a small and relatively secluded country, managing the COVID-19 pandemic has so far been quite a challenge for Israel. This contribution seeks to explain how Israel had managed migration and the pandemic amidst a constitutional crisis between February and July 2020.
Highlights
Specialty section: This article was submitted to Refugees and Conflict, a section of the journal Frontiers in Political Science
The first Coronavirus patient was diagnosed in Israel in late February 2020, after having arrived from Italy[1]
This happened days after Israel started prohibiting entry of tourists from countries with high infection rates[2] and imposed quarantine requirements on Israeli nationals arriving from those countries
Summary
The first Coronavirus patient was diagnosed in Israel in late February 2020, after having arrived from Italy[1] This happened days after Israel started prohibiting entry of tourists from countries with high infection rates[2] and imposed quarantine requirements on Israeli nationals arriving from those countries. The right-wing political leadership in Israel delegitimized the Israeli courts on an ongoing basis, looking to pass an override clause to restrict its ability to conduct judicial review of primary legislation This issue of judicial autonomy and the override clause was one of the issues in the negotiations between the parties which eventually formed the government[13]. While this intention has yet to materialize when this paper was written, this act, which would be a violation of international law, would, in all likelihood, impose another set of constitutional crises in Israel, as well as security issues and international pressures
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