Even in the most extreme scenarios, no one in Israel could have imagined that the Knesset speaker would refuse to obey a High Court ruling. But this is what happened yesterday morning.
Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein resigned, claiming that morally, he could not follow the directive of the court to convene the parliament and hold a vote to replace himself. Edelstein explained that he is staying put for a chance to establish an emergency national unity government to confront the coronavirus crisis.
