Tens of thousands of Israelis rallied Saturday night for the fourth straight week, demonstrating in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and the country against the country’s new government and its planned reforms.
Two demonstrations took place in Tel Aviv: one organized and organized in Habima Square through the Movement for Quality Government, and the moment on Kaplan Street through a coalition of anti-government groups.
A third demonstration took position in Caesarea in front of the home of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Another took up outdoor position in President Isaac Herzog’s official apartment in Jerusalem.
Protests also took hold in Be’er Sheva, Haifa and other cities.
Several of the protesters observed a minute of silence in tribute to the death of seven Israeli Jews killed by a 21-year-old Arab terrorist in the Neve Yaakov community north of Jerusalem.
Three others were wounded in the attack; Two other Israeli Jews were wounded in a momentary attack by a 13-year-old Arab terrorist in the City of David community in Jerusalem.
But anti-government protesters were not deterred from holding their protests despite the fatal attacks on Israelis less than a day earlier, and proceeded to criticize Justice Minister Yariv Levin and his plan to reform Israel’s judicial system, adding to the Supreme Court.
Former MP Collette Avital joined a group of leftists to lead the protest in Hatima Square. “Jew yes. Halakic state, no. Democracy, yes. Autocracy, no,” he said.
Former Defense Minister and IDF Chief of Staff Moshe Ya’alon led the protest on Kaplan Street in Tel Aviv and said he believed National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir was not qualified to be part of the Israeli police force. Government,” he said, “are not ashamed. “
In Jerusalem, opposition leader and Yesh Atid party chairman Yair Lapid lit a memorial candle at one of the protests.
“We came here to Jerusalem to remind everyone that we are one people,” he said. “We are forming a front opposed to terrorism. ” But Lapid later added: “The government will have to decide whether it needs to fight terrorism or Israeli democracy,” implying that the reform of the country’s long-shattered judicial formula is an attack on the country’s democratic formula.
The protests began when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held an emergency meeting of Israel’s political security cabinet following two bloody terror attacks that took place less than 24 hours earlier, which killed seven other people and wounded five others in two Jerusalem neighborhoods.
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