Kohelet Policy Forum

That was Daniel Tubkin.

Well, listening to him was Eugene Kontorovich, who is the director... of the International Law Department at the Kohelet Policy Forum, a right-wing think tank in Jerusalem.

What does he think about the importance that Daniel and other voters place on accountability for Benjamin Netanyahu in these elections?

I think it's not an uncommon view in Israel.

Welcome back to another episode of The Pulse of Israel here in our eternal and ancestral homeland, the land of Israel, in our beautiful indigenous ancestral capital city of Jerusalem since King David's time.

I am standing here today with Moshe Kopel of the Kohelet Policy Forum, which is one of the most... influential, even though we should be quiet about that,

but we don't have to be quiet about that, do we?

Influential think tanks here in Israel on the conservative right.

More of it, more of it.

Marish Kapel, thank you so much.

Keep up the unbelievable work you've been doing at the Kohelet Policy Forum.

I remember before you started it, I remember seeing it grow.

Welcome back to another episode of The Pulse of Israel here in our eternal and ancestral homeland, the land of Israel, in our beautiful indigenous ancestral capital city of Jerusalem since King David's time.

I am standing here today with Moshe Koppel of the Kohelet Policy Forum, which is one of the most... influential, even though we should be quiet about that,

but we don't have to be quiet about that, do we?

Influential think tanks here in Israel on the conservative right.

More of it, more of it.

Marish Kapel, thank you so much.

Keep up the unbelievable work you've been doing at the Kohelet Policy Forum.

I remember before you started it, I remember seeing it grow.

Sequential meaning stage two doesn't start until stage one closes.

The Kohelet Policy Forum calls it a torturous process.

The Hebrew is halohantori, a serial process where nothing moves in parallel.

Countries that run spatial review and design review at the same time finish in a fraction of the time because the two reviews don't depend on each other.

But the question arises as to why this country has lagged in adopting them or something similar.

For example, legal expert Avraham Shalev of the Kohelet Policy Forum has proposed that Israel adopt a law along the lines of America's 2002 Service Members Protection Act, barring state cooperation with the ICC and going further by making it a crime to share information with it.

As far as the ICJ, he proposes withdrawing from the Genocide Convention in protest of its bald manipulation to persecute and prosecute the Jewish state.

A middle path in terms of the relationship to the ICJ would be to rejoin with the reservation that the United States made in 1988.