Large protest march against the restructuring of the judiciary reaches Jerusalem

2023-07-22 18:57:01

Hundreds of demonstrators began the approximately 70-kilometer hike from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem on Tuesday. In the past few days, the kilometer-long protest march has grown in size. According to estimates by the Israeli broadcaster Channel 13, more than 70,000 people took part on Saturday.

Your plan is therefore to spend Sunday night in front of Parliament. Rallies with thousands of people were also planned in other cities in Israel in the evening. On Sunday morning, Israel’s right-wing religious government intends to present a core element of its plans to weaken the judiciary to parliamentarians. However, the final passage of the controversial law is not expected before Monday afternoon.

For more than six months, the project has divided large sections of Israeli society. Thousands regularly take to the streets. Recently, resistance within the military has also increased. Negotiations on a compromise have so far been unsuccessful. According to media reports, efforts should continue in the background. The law is part of a larger package that critics see as a threat to Israel’s democracy.

The country’s highest court should no longer be able to judge a decision by the government or individual ministers as “inappropriate”. Critics fear that this will encourage corruption and thus the arbitrary filling of important posts and layoffs. The Netanyahu government, on the other hand, accuses the judiciary of interfering too much in political decisions.