More than 100,000 people demonstrated this Saturday in Israel, in the 38th consecutive week of protests in the country against the judicial reform of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, local media revealed.
According to local media estimates, cited by the Efe agency, the protest mobilized around 100,000 people in Tel Aviv alone, joined by thousands of protesters in other parts of the country.
The protests have been taking place since January, after the Israeli Government approved a reform plan that seeks to grant more powers to the Executive at the expense of the judiciary, a decision that its critics consider calls into question democracy and the independence of these powers. .
The new day of challenge to the Netanyahu Government, which leads a coalition with ultra-Orthodox parties, occurs on the eve of “Yom Kippur” (Day of Atonement), one of the most important moments of the Jewish calendar and which was mentioned in the demonstrations. with the message “There is no forgiveness for the dictatorship,” he wrote to Efe.
As protesters took to the streets, Benjamin Netanyahu spoke in New York, at the annual debate of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly.
Source: TSF
