Israel's Coup: Who Is Authorized to Press Israel's Nuclear Button in a Doomsday Scenario?

The government's constitutional coup is bringing us closer to a head-on collision between the judicial and executive branches. If it happens, the four heads of the defense establishment will find themselves facing an unprecedented dilemma

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The government's messianic, obsessive drive to change Israel from a democracy to a dictatorship is bringing us all closer to an unavoidable collision between the judicial and executive branches. In such a situation, the four heads of the country's defense agencies will find themselves facing an unprecedented dilemma: Whether to obey the law or the government's orders.

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