Tens of thousands of people protested in Tel Aviv on Saturday against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government judicial reform plan, in a demonstration also attended by opposition leaders.
In addition to Tel Aviv, the main core of the anti-government protest movement, the most right-wing in Israel’s history, there were also small demonstrations in the cities of Jerusalem, Herzliya and Modiin. In Modiin, protesters demonstrated in front of Justice Minister Yariv Levin’s house.
As with all other protests, Israeli flags flew during Saturday’s demonstration, which also saw signs with anti-government words or warnings about the “biblical disaster” that the justice reform plan would bring.
If the plan, which the current coalition government is proposing, is approved, it would mean, among other things, that parliament could, by a simple majority, overturn Supreme Court decisions that overturn legislation or government decisions.
The Supreme Court has the power to overturn rules that violate Israel’s basic laws – the law with constitutional status – and opponents of the plan believe the reform would erode the separation of powers and undermine the formal foundations of Israeli democracy. weaken.
Since the government announced its intention to move forward with the law more than a month ago, there have been massive protests in Tel Aviv, Israel’s main stronghold of liberal views.
These are the largest protests in the country in decades and more than 120,000 people took to the streets two weeks ago, a number that surpassed the 80,000 three weeks ago.
On January 29, amid a sharp escalation of violence in the region in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the protest brought together about 40,000 people, according to the local press, while about 60,000 people were on the streets this Saturday. .
Source: DN
