Large groups of Israelis protest today in a new Saturday of demonstrations against the judicial reform of the right-wing Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu, after it temporarily frozen the controversial plan last Monday, after a massive wave of mobilizations.
According to local media, tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets again in the cities of Tel Aviv or Haifa, while the organizers of the protests promised to continue mobilizing against a reform that, according to critics, would undermine the independence of the judiciary. and the separation of powers in Israel.
All this, despite the fact that Netanyahu was forced this week to temporarily stop the push for the package of laws of the plan, after the massive protests that broke out last Sunday after the announcement of the dismissal of the Defense Minister and that on Monday led to a mobilization with more than 100,000 attendees in Jerusalem.
The judicial reform further aggravated the political polarization in the country, generating the most massive protest movement in Israel in recent decades, made up largely of the secular and liberal Israeli sector that has its epicenter in Tel Aviv.
Now, the president of Israel, Isaac Herzog, is trying to mediate between the government and opposition forces so that they reach a consensus on the judicial plan. For his part, the Minister of National Security, the far-right Itamar Ben Gvir, pressured Netanyahu to continue with the reform despite the protests.
Finally, in exchange for accepting the freezing of the plan, he got Netanyahu to give his approval to the creation of a new security body that Ben Gvir wants to have under his control. In turn, its formation is expected to be approved tomorrow at the Sunday meeting of the Israeli Government Cabinet, something that creates controversy.