This is the strongest mobilization since Benyamin Netanyahu has returned to business at the head of the government on the right of Israeli history.
MO12345lemonde with AFP
A hundred thousand Israelis, including former Prime Minister Yaïr Lapid, demonstrated on Saturday January 21 in the evening in Tel Aviv to denounce the attacks on democracy with which they accuse the power coalition, according to estimates of the press.
The police have not provided evaluation, but it is the strongest mobilization since Benyamin Netanyahu returned to business last month at the head of the most right in history in history Israeli, which brings together the right, the far right and the Jewish ultraorthodox parties. Some 70,000 demonstrators had already descended into the streets of Tel Aviv, Saturday January 14, according to the police.
“People who like the State came to defend its democracy, its courts, the idea of a common life and a common good”, a tweeted yaïr Lapid by joining the demonstrators, swearing from” not abandoning as long as we have not won ” .
showdown with the Supreme Court
מה שאתם רואים פה היום זו הפגנה בעד המדינה. אנשים שאוהבים את המדינה באו כדי להגן על הדמוקרטיה שלה, על בתי המשפט שלה,… https://t.co/6mlpmgal9k
– yairlapid (@יאיר לפיד – Yair Lapid)
The demonstrators denounce in particular the project of reform of the judicial system presented at the beginning of the month by the Minister of Justice, Yariv Levin, who provides for the introduction of a “derogatory” clause allowing the Parliament to overcome a decision of The Supreme Court, which many consider as an attack on democracy.
Tel Aviv’s demonstration has also attracted opponents of the occupation of the Palestinian territories. Many members of the government are ardent supporters of the expansion of the West Bank Colonies.
The Supreme Court had invalidated the appointment of the Interior Minister Arié Deri on Wednesday, who had been found guilty of tax fraud. The Israeli deputies had voted in a hurry, at the end of December 2022, a text baptized “law derived” by the press, authorizing a person found guilty of a crime, but not sentenced to a prison sentence, to obtain a portfolio ministerial, so as to allow the leader of the Shass ultraorthodox party to enter the government of Benyamin Netanyahu.