Israeli president attacks government assault on state bodies
FILE – In this Oct. 26, 2015 file photo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin attend the official memorial ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the assassination of the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin at the Mt. Herzl Cemetery in Jerusalem. In an unusually blunt address to parliament, Monday, Oct. 23, 2017, Rivlin accused the government of delegitimizing state institutions as part of a campaign of stifling opposition. Rivlin made a scathing critique of his former political home — the Likud Party of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (AP Photo/Debbie Hill, Pool, File)