Israeli protesters blocked highways and briefly mobbed the stock exchange on a 'Day of Disruption' as legislators prepared to ratify one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's disputed judicial bills
TEL AVIV, July 18 - Israeli protesters blocked highways and briefly mobbed the stock exchange on a "Day of Disruption" on Tuesday as legislators prepared to ratify one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu'sThousands poured onto the streets in rallies across the country, many waving Israeli flags, and police reported at least a half-dozen highways had been blocked.
Netanyahu defended the proposed changes, vowing to keep "Israel a Jewish and democratic nation state, free and liberal, that holds sacrosanct majority rule alongside civil rights." "We are here to say to Israel's government: The more you press, the harder we resist," Jonathan Eran Kali, a 62-year-old retired tech worker, told Reuters at a demonstration outside the Habimah Theatre in Tel Aviv.
Still, the coalition looked set to bring the bill to the plenum on Sunday for final votes before the July 30 recess.
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