Israel Protests
Netta Barzilai (third from left) at a Tel Aviv protest against the government's judicial overhaul. Photo: Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90
August 28, 2023, 6:38 am
High Court rejects delay on ‘reasonableness’ law hearing
"My parents come here every week, and there was no way I would leave them alone here. We hear every day about exclusion and violence against women, and we will not be trampled on," Barzilai told the crowd.
By TOI STAFF and Emanuel Fabian
Activists in Tel Aviv march with symbolic coffins denouncing the violent crimes against Arab communities. Photo: Jack Guez / AFP
August 13, 2023, 1:14 pm
Police accused of ignoring Arab murders
Participants walked behind demonstrators carrying 140 coffins, marking the number of those killed in homicides in the Arab community since the start of 2023...
By AJN STAFF
Israelis protest against the visit of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara in the Golan Heights. Photo: Ayal Margolin/Flash90
August 11, 2023, 6:35 am
Thousands refuse to report for volunteer duty
Protest organisers quoted by Kan claimed that up to Tuesday morning, the authorities were also preventing further activists from joining their encampment and supplying them with food, water and shade.
By AJN STAFF
Police fire water cannons at anti-overhaul protesters on Jerusalem's Begin Highway. Photo: Times of Israel
July 27, 2023, 9:12 am
Chaos and condemnation follow vote
Reasonableness legislation passes knesset as nation erupts.
Anti-overhaul activists seen near the Supreme Court and Knesset, in Jerusalem, on July 23, 2023. Photo: Chaim Goldberg/Flash90
July 24, 2023, 8:35 am
‘Time of emergency’
Tens of thousands at Tel Aviv pro-coalition event where ministers slam reservist protests, vow more laws, while ex-president Rivlin in Jerusalem says there are just '24 hours to save our wonderful country'
Israelis attend a protest against the government's judicial overhaul plans, in Tel Aviv, on June 17. Photo: Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90
July 13, 2023, 11:46 am
An indispensable stand for democracy
These protests have transcended traditional boundaries, resonating well beyond the young ‘left wing’ urbanites.
By Guy Pross and Dr Dror Ben-Ami
Protesters in Tel Aviv, on Saturday, June 24. Photo: Miriam Alster/Flash90
June 29, 2023, 5:30 am
Protests set to erupt as courts overhaul proceeds
Organisers of the protests have said that now that the government has begun moving ahead in the Knesset with certain elements of the plan, they will renew their efforts.
By TOI STAFF and CARRIE KELLER-LYNN
Protesters in Tel Aviv on May 27. Photo: Jack Guez/AFP
June 6, 2023, 7:21 am
Judicial talks resume amid storm of criticism
In a joint statement, the Yesh Atid and National Unity parties stressed that while dialogue is the only solution, "We made it clear that continuing with talks is conditional upon the possibility of making progress."
By CARRIE KELLER-LYNN, LAZAR BERMAN and TOI STAFF
Itamar Ben-Gvir, Minister of National Security and MK Ofir Katz during a discussion and a vote in the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on March 1, 2023. Photo: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
May 9, 2023, 9:40 am
Coalition officials turn up heat on Ben Gvir, say he is to blame if government falls
As far-right minister Itamar Ben Gvir enters his fifth day of boycott in protest of Gaza policy, coalition whip says this is ‘sure path’ to early elections, Smotrich says it would be ‘prize for terror.
By CARRIE KELLER-LYNN
Israelis protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government to overhaul the judicial system, outside the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem, Monday, Feb. 13, 2023. Photo: AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, File
May 9, 2023, 9:04 am
Protests are altering Israel’s trajectory, says Handmaid’s writer
At Jerusalem Writers Festival, the Canadian author behind The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood, talks judicial reform, saying she isn’t surprised that hundreds of Israeli women are utilising the vivid visual themes from the book.
By JESSICA STEINBERG
Police use water cannons to disperse protesters outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem on March 26. Photo: Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90
April 3, 2023, 6:36 am
A path that unifies, rather than divides
Beyond the security chiefs' concerns, the impact on Israel's civil society is of great concern. Israel's democracy is fragile.
By David Knoll, Brian Samuel and Helen Shardey & Rabbi Allison Conyer
Jewish community members outside Caulfield Park protesting against proposed changes they fear will threaten democracy in Israel. Photo: Peter Haskin
March 8, 2023, 6:27 am
Second week of protests
Rabbi Yonatan Sadoff, of Masorti shule Kehilat Nitzan, said to demonstrators, "We stand in protest of the government's proposed judicial overhaul."
By Peter Kohn
Israeli protesters attend a rally against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new far-right government in Tel Aviv. Photo: Ahmad Gharabli/AFP
March 7, 2023, 11:54 am
ECAJ, ZFA speak out on Israel’s judicial reforms
'We recognise and respect that, being in the diaspora, we have different rights, but we are also deeply invested in Israel’s survival and the wellbeing of all Israelis and the Jewish people'
By AJN STAFF
Demonstrators block a road and clash with police who deploy tear gas as they protest against the government's planned judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv, March 1, 2023. Photo: Erik Marmor/Flash90
March 2, 2023, 2:43 pm
PM’s wife trapped in salon as protests sweep across Israel
'The country is burning and Sara is getting a haircut'. PM’s wife holes up in central Tel Aviv after hundreds of demonstrators surround storefront; protests also resume in Jerusalem, north.
By TOI STAFF
Protesters rally against the government's judicial overhaul plans outside the Knesset, on February 20, 2023. Photo: Gili Yaari/Flash90
March 1, 2023, 4:27 pm
Protesters launch nationwide ‘day of disruption’ against justice overhaul
Around Israel, opponents of government’s legislation to hold rallies, marches, strikes and road-blocking; police prepare to thwart ‘disorder’
By Michael Bachner
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