Advocated by the far-right government of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, this reform has generated regular massive protests since January.
With our correspondent in Jerusalem, Michael Paul
Rallies at crossroads and in all major cities of the country for the 25th consecutive week. Particularly noted in Tel Aviv is former Prime Minister and Chief of Staff Ehud Barak who calls for nonviolent resistance:
“ We must strengthen our fight and move towards non-violent civil disobedience. It is the only legitimate avenue of protest for a population when its government works against its own basic values. »
Demonstrations which come at the end of a particularly violent week in the West Bank. Seven dead on the Palestinian side and four dead on the Israeli side and while the attacks of young settlers on Palestinian localities continue during the weekend. And also at a time when the judges of Binyamin Netanyahu’s trial are proposing an agreement between the prosecution and the defense because, they say, the charge of corruption, does not seem to hold water…
But for the journalist and writer Eliezer Yaari, these considerations should not be taken into account: “ In the world and here, much more serious events are happening. These protests have been going on for six months. And so if Netanyahu is guilty of this or that, it doesn’t really matter. »
Democracy, claim the demonstrators while the Knesset should resume in the coming days the debate on judicial reform.