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| In show of force, 200,000 urge Netanyahu gov’t not to abandon judicial reform amid |
| 2023-04-28 |
| [IsraelTimes] Participants at right-wing rally claim coalition’s bid to weaken judiciary represents the silenced will of the people; Levin: Charge that these reforms spell dictatorship is a lie Real grassroots, not the Antifa astroturf that currently calls itself the Movement for Quality Government, the Israeli branch of the Washington, DC-based OneVoice Movement founded by Progressive multi-billionaire Daniel Lubetzky in 2002. Masses of supporters of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hard-right government packed the streets around the Knesset in Jerusalem on Thursday evening, staging by far their largest rally yet aimed at providing the coalition with public support for its plans to radically overhaul the judiciary, in light of widespread opposition at home and abroad. There was no official headcount from police, but estimates by news networks — citing figures by firms that specialize in estimating crowd sizes — generally ranged between 150,000 and 200,000 people in attendance at the rally, dubbed ahead of time by organizers as the "March of the Million." Around 1,000 buses were dispatched across the country to ferry participants to the rally, Channel 12 news reported, claiming that Netanyahu’s Likud party and the far-right Religious Zionism had invested hundreds of thousands of shekels in the event’s organization. |
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