yankel> SC’s unauthorized [critical fact , not to be ignored] grab of power at the expense of the elected representatives renders israel into a pseudo democracy or not
I see, thanks for reminding me. As I mentioned, it is a feature of modern democracies to have separation between political and judicial power. That means that, usually unelected or rarely or indirectly elected, judges have power at the expense of elected representatives. As a classical example, US Supreme court under John Marshall “grabbed” the power of judicial review over duly voted and signed laws (if I am not precise, I am sure there are lawyers here who will correct me).
You may point out specific Israeli features that are not in others, then please do exactly that, otherwise your statements do not have the power of conviction you think they have.
PS Note that Jewish law has also features of separation of power: Sanhedrin is parallel to a King. King is recognized to have powers outside of Sanhedrin, for example, he does not need all this witness business to execute a rebel. Kohanim have power over Beis Hamidash procedures and finances. There is even a federal system – Horayos discusses implications of some or majority of the tribes following erroneous decision of their tribal courts. Including a question – is majority of the tribes counted by population or by count of tribes (as in electoral college in US).