Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a delay in his judicial overhaul plan on Monday, saying he wanted 'to avoid civil war” by making time to seek a compromise. FOX13
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a delay in his judicial overhaul plan Monday, saying he wanted "to avoid civil war" by making time to seek a compromise over the contentious package with political opponents."When there’s an opportunity to avoid civil war through dialogue, I, as prime minister, am taking a timeout for dialogue," Netanyahu said in a nationally televised address.
Opposition leader Yair Lapid said that if the judicial overhaul was indeed halted, he was willing to hold dialogue brokered by the president.Nationwide protests erupted in Israel on Sunday night, March 26, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired his defence minister, Yoav Gallant, for opposing controversial judicial reforms.
The growing resistance to Netanyahu's plan came hours after tens of thousands of people burst into the streets around the country in a spontaneous show of anger at the prime minister's decision to fire his defense minister after he called for a pause to the overhaul. Chanting "the country is on fire," they lit bonfires on Tel Aviv's main highway, closing the thoroughfare and many others throughout the country for hours.
Thousands of Israeli protesters rally against Israeli Governments judicial overhaul bills in Raanana on March 27, 2023. Protesters confronted with Police and blocked main roads. The speech appeared to calm tensions, but it did not resolve the underlying tensions behind the protests. Even before he spoke, the grassroots anti-government protest movement said a delay was would not be enough.
Israel's Palestinian citizens, however, have largely sat out the protests. Many say Israel’s democracy is tarnished by its military rule over their brethren in the West Bank and the discrimination they themselves face. Some 20,000 right-wing Israelis attended a counter demonstration, which also took place near parliament and passed without violence."They won’t steal the election from us," read a flyer for event, organized by Religious Zionist party.
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