Since January 2023, Israelis have taken to the streets every weekend in the hundreds of thousands to protest the government’s plans to overhaul the state’s judicial system, which its opponents claim is a judicial coup” that would weaken Israeli democracy. Jewish Studies Director Dr. Yaron Ayalon joins Dr. Joshua Shanes, Director of the Arnold Center for Israel Studies, in a conversation explaining the background to the protests, what might we expect moving forward, and what American Jews can do.