50 ex-ministry heads, treasury chiefs join financial warnings over judicial overhaul

Fifty former ministry directors have joined the warnings against the government’s plan to overhaul the judiciary, saying it would lead to “long-term” damage to the country’s economic growth and quality of life.

In a letter published Monday, former senior officials — including former treasury directors and some who worked under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for years — said the planned overhaul “will cause unprecedented damage to Israel’s economy.”

Signatories include former Finance Ministry directors general David Brodet, Yaacov Lifshitz, Ohad Marani, Yarom Ariav, Aharon Fogel, Haim Shani, Shalom Singer and Keren Terner Eyal, as well as former budget director at the Finance Ministry Shaul Meridor, former Prime Minister’s Office director general Raanan Dinur, former Energy Ministry director general Udi Adiri, and former Competition Authority director general Michal Halperin. READ MORE