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Organizers claim 135,000 at main anti-overhaul protest in Tel Aviv, ‘thousands’ in Haifa

2023-05-21

Interest is fading.

[IsraelTimes] Organizers of the main anti-judicial overhaul protest in Tel Aviv claim some 135,000 are gathered on Kaplan Street tonight.

The organizers cite drone footage by the Ein Hanetz company.

Previous weeks saw around 200,000 gather, according to official estimates.

Hundreds of thousands of people have been holding huge protests in Tel Aviv and nationwide against the government’s judicial overhaul plans every Saturday for the last 20 weeks, with demonstrations carrying on after the coalition paused the legislation to allow a period of dialogue on its highly divisive
...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled...
efforts to weaken the justice system.

An earlier Times of Israel article summarizes last week’s events:

Last week’s protests were muted because some of the organizers called off their support due to the threat of rockets from Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
during fighting between Israel and the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
terror group.

Some protesters showed up anyway, with several hundred gathering in Tel Aviv. Around 5,000 marched in Haifa, a northern city farther from the Gaza threat.

Those’ll be your core Antifa cadres on the US State Department payroll.

Netanyahu has seen a bump in public support since the Gaza operation, after his ratings plummeted during his first four months in office, apparently due to public opposition to the judicial overhaul and other policies.

‘The plundering government’: Thousands protest in Haifa

[IsraelTimes] Thousands are protesting in the northern coastal city of Haifa this evening against the government’s judicial overhaul plans.

Organizers say the demonstrations across the country tonight are focusing on the "plunder of public coffers" in the state budget, set to be approved by the end of the month.

In Haifa, protesters unfurl a large banner that reads: "The plundering government."

Protest groups say this "refers to the government’s attempt to give 14 billion shekels of taxpayer money to the ultra-Orthodox and ultra-nationalist settler parties."

The government’s plans to allocate large sums of money to the ultra-Orthodox community have also drawn criticism from within the Finance Ministry for being unsustainable in the long term.

According to Channel 12 news, protesters are urging opposition chief MK Yair Lapid and MK Benny Gantz to leave ongoing talks for a compromise on the overhaul plans at the President’s Residence. There has been little reported progress during the talks over the past two months.

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