Thousands of people in Tel Aviv, Israel, protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government’s progress in judicial reform. The newspaper writes about it Israeli times.
Organizers claim that around 150,000 people attended the protest in the city.
The article states that thousands of Israeli citizens go to rallies in other major cities of the republic. It was noted that protesters blocked roads in Herzliya and Haifa, while two protesters were interrogated in Bat Yam on suspicion of disturbing order.
According to the broadcast, attendees chanted pro-democracy slogans during the demonstration and demanded that authorities stop supporting judicial reform, which meant a significant expansion of the Knesset’s control over the judiciary.
in Israel on March 26 started Mass protests against judicial reform – more than 600 thousand people, more than 6% of the country’s population, took to the streets. The reform is based on the fact that the majority of the Parliament can elect Supreme Court judges, who will forfeit the right to overturn Cabinet decisions.
Demonstrators previously in Tel Aviv blocked highway.