Mass protests continue in Israel at the gates of the adoption of the judicial reform

Mass protests then continue in Jerusalem 29 weeksbefore the controversy judicial reform which the government of Israel is trying to promote and which protesters say threatens the independence of the judiciary. Parliament will today vote and pass one of the most important reform bills, the law that will enact the learn from reason, which still allows the Supreme Court to review and overturn government decisions based on whether they are reasonable or not. In addition, hundreds of companies in the country have announced their strike on this critical day.

The decision by these companies to strike comes after the protest movement Histadrut pressured the country’s trade union federation for weeks to general strikeas it already did on March 27, when Netanyahu was forced to do so temporarily freeze the processing of the reform and entering into a dialogue with the opposition, but those negotiations broke down in June and the government made a decision move unilaterally with the assimilation of the reform, reviving the protest movement.

Israel’s President Isaac Herzog has again appealed to the “responsibility” and to “concept” between the government and the opposition to reach a consensus on judicial reform, and has warned that the country is in a “state of national emergency” due to its biggest internal crisis marked by the largest protests in its history.

“We are working around the clock, in every possible way to find a solution. There is a basis for one possible understandingbut gaps remain that require the responsibility of the various parties,” Herzog said in a statement on an important day for Israel.

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Thousands of people are concentrated today before the Knesset (Israeli parliament) in Jerusalem to protest the vote on the law that eliminates the doctrine of reasonableness, allowing the Supreme Court to review and overturn government decisions based on whether they are reasonable or not, one of the pillars of judicial reform.

In the early morning hours have been there clashes between protesters and policewho used water cannons to disperse a group blocking access to the Knesset and arrested Moshe Radman, one of the leaders of the protests.

It would be the first law of that legislative package to take effect since Benjamin Netanyahu’s government announced that plan. early Januarywhich then unleashed the largest protests in Israel’s history seven consecutive months.