Israeli protesters had been again on the streets Thursday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a judicial reforms-related compromise plan pitched by the nation’s president.
The controversial reforms, a number of provisions of which have already been adopted by parliament, are “the end of democracy,” learn a placard brandished by demonstrators in Tel Aviv.
“I am afraid that we will become a religious state, that the laws of Judaism will come first and the democratic freedom that we have will not be there anymore,” Liat Tzvi, a researcher at Tel Aviv University, advised the Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Demonstrators additionally gathered in Jerusalem and the northern metropolis of Haifa to denounce the overhaul that will, amongst different issues, enable lawmakers to scrap supreme court docket rulings with a easy majority vote.
Since Netanyahu’s hard-right authorities introduced the reforms in January, the month after taking workplace, large demonstrations have commonly taken place throughout Israel.
Opponents of the bundle have additionally accused Netanyahu, who faces a string of corruption allegations, of attempting to make use of the reforms to quash doable judgments in opposition to him.
President Isaac Herzog earlier Wednesday offered a proposed compromise on the reforms, nevertheless it was instantly rejected by the federal government.
“Anyone who thinks that a genuine civil war, with human lives, is a line that we could never reach, has no idea what he is talking about,” Herzog stated.
Netanyahu later advised reporters: “As for the president’s compromise, I think any attempt to reach an agreement and a dialogue is certainly welcome.”
“But what the president is proposing has not been accepted by the representatives of the ruling coalition. Key points in his program only perpetuate the existing situation and do not bring the required balance between the powers,” he added.
Source: www.dailysabah.com
