Edited sentence: "THE GENERALS' PROTEST" is a forum comprising 180 former leaders of Israel's defense and security establishment: 3 Chiefs of the IDF General Staff , 7 Chiefs of the Police, 4 Directors of the ISI - "Shabak", 5 Directors of the "Mossad", 2 Heads of NSC and more than150 IDF Generals and parallel civilian rank holders.) - Tamir Pardo, Deputy IDF Chief of staff Dan Harel (ret.) and General Noam Tibon (ret.), Director of the ISI Carmi Gilon (ret.), Police Commissioner Moshe Karadi (ret.Based on the forum members' vast experience and understanding of Israel's security - challenges, they perceive this assault, as a seriously clear and imminent danger to Israel's security, and thereby to its very existence.In addition, this assault on Israel's basic values is already causing massive damage to Israel's society, its economy, and to almost every aspect of lives.Netanyahu's Government is methodically acting to weaken and undermine the Israeli supreme court, and to consolidate supremacy of the executive branch over the legislative and judicial branches.The forum’s leadership consists of: Director of Mossad (ret.This spontaneous mobilization was sparked in response to the current Israeli government's concerted campaign to replace our liberal democracy with a dictatorial autocracy