There's some stuff I need to get out of the way.

I have tons to say about the idiotic way the rabbanut handled the shmittah business and the outrageous Supreme Court decision which grossly interfered with halachic business. (The decision is worth reading: Elyakim Rubinstein thinks he's Rav Chaim Ozer with a law degree and Beinish thinks she's a Reform rabbi.) Taken together these two acts of insanity clearly mark the beginning of the end for the rabbanut. And nobody seems to give a damn: the haredim never had much use for rabbanut mi-taam, the Mizrochnikim are delighted that the heter mechirah is back in business and have missed the main point, and the rest of the country thinks they can all go to hell.

I also have a full stomach about Daniel Friedmann's proposal for formally legalizing judicial review under specific constraints. In short, he means well but has compromised with the dark forces to the extent that we are better off without his law than with it. He allows a provision for a Knesset override of a court decision to strike down laws (good) but 53 MKs can block the override (bad). This number is too low for an override to ever happen and will kill the prospects for such an override in the constitution, thereby likely killing the whole constitution. There are a variety of other niggling problems with the proposal from my point of view, although the published attacks have come almost exclusively from the left.

The problem is that even I'm bored with all that, so I can only imagine how most people who have no interest in this topic to begin with must feel. OK, so now it's officially out of the way and we are free to talk about more interesting stuff.