Half a million Israelis take part in the largest protest in the country’s history

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Hundreds of thousands of Israelis in the country’s main cities, with Tel Aviv at its epicenter, have been demonstrating for weeks to protest the judicial reform being promoted by Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government.

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About half a million Israelis demonstrated across Israel this Saturday, “the largest protest in Israel’s history,” according to civil society organizations calling for demonstrations against the new government of Benjamin Netanyahu.

“About half a million men and women came to protest against the coup last night, at the central rally on Kaplan Street in Tel Aviv and elsewhere in Israel. It is the largest protest in the history of the State of Israel.The organizing groups made this statement in a statement on Sunday.

for weeks, The police do not give estimates on the number of participants in these protests with which we can compare the data offered by the organizers, which is generally validated by the Israeli media.

Black Flag groups or the Movement for Quality Government in Israel are gathering hundreds of thousands of Israelis in the country’s main cities, with Tel Aviv as the epicenter, to protest for ten consecutive weeks. against judicial reform promoted by the new government of Benjamin Netanyahu.

Large segments of Israeli society, not only from the left but also from the liberal center, they see that reform as a threat to democracyas it allows broad executive control over justice, by being able to choose the judges, in addition to the “nullification clause”, which allows Parliament to reverse Supreme Court rulings.

Image of the march in the Israeli capital. Photo: EITB MEDIA

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Source: EITB

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