Anti-government protests in Haifa end with police-estimated count of 13,000 demonstrators in attendance
Dozens protesting in West Bank settlement of Efrat
Dozens of anti-government protesters are demonstrating in the West Bank settlement of Efrat, the first such protest since the demonstrations against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government’s plan to overhaul the judiciary began in January.
2,000 anti-government protesters in Be’er Sheva
Some 2,000 anti-government protesters were marching near courthouses in the southern Israeli city of Be’er Sheva on Saturday night.
Anti-government protests reach Beit Shemesh, organizers estimate attendance at 250
In Beit Shemesh, a conservative and religious city near Jerusalem, protesters are calling for Justice Minister Yariv Levin to ‘go to Poland’ and for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Hungary, referring to two countries where democratic norms have been significantly weakened in recent years. Protestors are facing vocal opposition by passersby shouting at them.
Organizer Alon Gilad told Haaretz: “I want to live in a democracy.”
Daniel Goldman, former chairman of Gesher, a nonprofit association that promotes dialogue between different segments of Israeli society, speaking at the rally said: “I’m very concerned. The proposed reforms rebalance between the judicial and executive branches, but put all the power in the hands of the executive branch. It’s wrong not only because it undermines democracy, but because it goes against our Jewish tradition.”
Israeli youth at anti-government protest in Tel Aviv
Hashomer Hatzair youth movement members chanting for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resign at the anti-government demonstration in Tel Aviv on Saturday night.
4,000 protesters at President’s house in Jerusalem
At least 4,000 anti-government protesters are demonstrating outside the residence of Israeli President Isaac Herzog in Jerusalem on Saturday night.
Tel Aviv anti-government protest: ‘A government of pigs is not kosher’
Former defense minister: Current gov’t is a ‘dictatorship of criminals’
Former defense minister Moshe Bogie Ya’alon delivered a scathing attack on the government, calling it a “dictatorship of criminals” while speaking at an anti-government protest in the central Israeli city of Netanya.
He continued: “How did we get to the point where only 80 years after the Holocaust a fascist, racist, homophobic group of people sit in the cabinet of the state of Israel?”
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