2023-07-12 22:07:27
On Tuesday in Tel Aviv, mounted police disperse anti-government protesters. Dar Yaskil/Getty Images
DECRYPTION – It was the vote on the text on the so-called “reasonableness” clause that electrified the opposition to the reform.
Under the relentless summer sun, Israel is reliving the scorching hours of last winter, when hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets to protest Binyamin Netanyahu’s government’s judicial reform . Their movement had been so massive that, faced with the risk of a blockage of the country, a pause had been decreed by the Israeli Prime Minister. But the procedure resumed with the spring and the reform, despite some amendments, is in the process of being voted on in the Knesset. During the night of Monday to Tuesday, the solid coalition led by the Likud voted in first reading one of the texts composing the reform. The opposition is headwind.
On Tuesday, opponents of the reform announced a “National Disruption Day” in Israel. At the end of the day, thousands of them gathered in front of the buildings of the American Embassy in Tel Aviv. In a deafening din, they unfurled a huge Israeli flag…
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