New day of protests and arrests in Israel, with Netanyahu’s judicial reform frozen

The protests in Israel do not stop, forcing the police this Saturday to use water cannons to disperse the thousands of protesters who blocked one of the main highways in Tel Aviv, with 19 detainees. It is estimated that about 450,000 people demonstrated across Israel200,000 of them in Tel Aviv.

The country is experiencing the thirteenth consecutive week of movements against a controversial reform of the judicial system that already seems to admit changes. Last Tuesday, representatives of most of the parties in Parliament began talks at the president’s residence, Isaac Herzog, to try to formulate legislation that would be acceptable to all.

From the Government, the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu However, he insists on the need to reform the judicial system in order to be able to stop a Supreme Court that he considers liberal and excessively interventionist.

The reform, frozen

Critics of the reform, however, recall that this would only damage the country’s balance system, also recalling the conflict of interests that Netanyahu has right now, such as accused of bribery, fraud and breach of trust.

Be that as it may, the judicial reform plan, currently frozen, has plunged Israel into its worst political crisis in years. On Monday Netanyahu was forced to announce a pause in processing after a general strike was triggered in response to the dismissal of the defense minister, Yoav Gallantfor, precisely, proposing that pause.

Curiously, Netanyahu has not yet presented Gallant with the statutory termination letter, so the defense minister has carried on with his duties as usual.

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