2023-06-17 20:54:16
Protests continue against judicial reform
These new demonstrations come a few days after the two main leaders of the Israeli opposition suspended their participation in the negotiations.
Tel Aviv, where the largest rally was held on Saturday.
AFP
Crowds of Israelis descended on Tel Aviv and other Israeli cities Saturday evening for the 24th consecutive week, to protest against the controversial reform plan of the judicial system of the government of Benjamin Netanyahu.
These new demonstrations come a few days after the two main leaders of the Israeli opposition, Yaïr Lapid and Benny Gantz, suspended their participation in the negotiations supposed to make it possible to find common ground on the reform which deeply divides the country. Benjamin Netanyahu announced on March 27 a “pause” in the project to give a “chance […] dialogue”, but the mobilization against the reform remains strong.
A government determined to push through the reform
On Friday, Justice Minister Yariv Levin, the main architect of judicial reform, said he was “more determined than ever to continue and to do everything possible to pass the reform, which is necessary to straighten out the judicial system”. In the city of Petah Tikvah (center), Neria, a lawyer estimated that after the suspension of the talks, there is a greater risk that the ruling coalition will resume its reform unilaterally.
For the government, one of the most right-wing in the history of Israel, the reform of the judicial system aims, among other things, to rebalance powers by reducing the prerogatives of the Supreme Court, which the executive considers politicized, in favor of the Parliament. Critics of the reform believe, on the contrary, that it risks opening the way to an illiberal or authoritarian drift.
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