Our correspondent said that today, Monday, the Israeli Supreme Court rejected a petition that demanded that Benjamin Netanyahu be disqualified from continuing as prime minister.
The response of the Supreme Court comes at a time when tens of thousands of Israelis are demonstrating in front of the Knesset headquarters in Jerusalem, in the latest accelerating steps of protests against the amendments that the government wants to introduce to the judicial system.
Today, political sources in Israel reported that the prime minister decided to suspend the judicial amendments plan, which sparked unprecedented protests in Israel’s history and plunged it into a governance crisis.
In his latest comment on what is going on, Netanyahu called, via Twitter, on protesters from all sides to act responsibly and refrain from violence.
In his tweet, he said, “I call on all protesters in Jerusalem, right and left, to act responsibly and not act violently. We are brothers.”
What happened?
- Protests erupted in Israel, on Sunday evening, in a way that exceeds all the protests that erupted since last January, against the backdrop of a project to reform the judicial system, following the dismissal of Netanyahu To his defense minister, Yoav Gallant, after he made statements calling for a month-long freeze of the mechanism for amending the judicial system that the government is seeking, as it poses a threat to Israel’s security.
- After the news spread, thousands of demonstrators marched to the center of Tel Aviv, and crowds gathered in front of Netanyahu’s house in Jerusalem and broke through the security cordon from one side before the police used water cannons to disperse them, according to Archyde.com.
- Israeli media reported that the demonstrations included other cities from the north to the south of the country, and reported estimates that the number of demonstrators reached more than 600,000.
- Some protesters blocked main streets in several cities, as well as several intersections.