Israeli president attacks government assault on state bodies

FILE – In this July 10, 2017 file photo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, stands with Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin, at the President’s residence 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/Sebastian Scheiner, File)