The prime minister is demonstrating his full power - and the full power of his destructiveness - with an implicit threat that if he does not free himself from the clutches of the judiciary, Israel's pro-democracy bloc will find that the madness will only intensify

The full text of the legislation, which has been unveiled in the Knesset, calls for a new five-member committee to appoint the head of the Police Internal Investigations Department – with three of them appointed by the justice minister or his director general