OVER 100,000 ISRAELIS RENEW ANTI-GOV’T PROTESTS AGAINST NETANYAHU’S JUDICIAL PLANS (VIDEO)

Sun 05 February 2023:

The controversial judicial reforms that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration has proposed, well over 100,000 Israelis demonstrated for the fifth week in a row in dozens of cities across the nation, including Haifa, Beersheba, Jerusalem, Kfar Saba, Modi’in, and two locations in Tel Aviv, at Habima Square and on Kaplan Street.

For the fifth week in a row, tens of thousands of Israelis have come to demonstrate against

Protesters braved heavy rain in Tel Aviv’s central city on Saturday, carrying blue and white Israeli flags and chanting anti-Netanyahu justice minister slogans.

Protests were also held on Saturday in Paris outside of the hotel that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife were staying in, and in London outside of the Israeli embassy.

Opposition leader MK Yair Lapid attended the demonstration in Haifa.

“These people in Haifa, Beersheba, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, came to say that they do not want to live in a country in which people who work are less important than people who don’t, and people who serve in the army are less important than those who do, and people who do not abide by the law are more important than people who do,” Lapid said.

“These people are trying to save their country, and we come to protest with them because we will not let this happen. We will fight in the streets, we will fight in the Knesset, we will fight in the courts. We will save our country because we are not willing to live in a non-democratic state,” Lapid said.

The proposed changes, which the government says are needed to curb overreach by judges, have drawn fierce opposition from groups including lawyers and raised concerns among business leaders, widening already deep political divisions in Israeli society.

Critics say Israeli democracy would be undermined if the government succeeds in pushing through the plans, which would tighten political control over judicial appointments and limit the Supreme Court’s powers to overturn government decisions or Knesset laws.

Local media reported protests in some 20 cities across the country.

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