Protests against controversial judicial reform in Israel continue. The public took to the streets again after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who opposes judicial reform. The demonstrators, who went down to the streets with Israeli flags in their hands, closed the Ayalon Highway in the capital Tel Aviv and set fire to traffic.
Outside of Tel Aviv, a large number of people gathered outside Prime Minister Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem. Hundreds of people took to the streets in Beersheba in the south and Haifa in the north of the country. While the tension between the police and the demonstrators increased in places, the police intervened the demonstrators with pressurized water in some regions.
"The security of the state of Israel has always been my life's mission"
Gallant said in his first statement after his dismissal, "The security of the state of Israel has always been and will remain the mission of my life." Gallant recalled the widespread protests within the military against judicial reform and called for the suspension of controversial judicial reform, citing the danger to national security.
"Israeli Prime Minister is a danger to the state of Israel"
Opposition leader Yair Lapid said in a statement, reacting sharply to Gallant's dismissal and said, "Israeli Prime Minister is a danger to the state of Israel."
“He chose the path of the dictators”
Avigdor Liberman, the leader of the Yisrael Beytenu Party (Israel is Our Home), Israel's former Defense Minister, described Netanyahu's dismissal of Gallant as "dictatorship" and said, "The Minister of Defense, the disintegration of the IDF and Israel's disintegration "Instead of listening to Gallant and convening the cabinet, Netanyahu chose the path of all dictators. Silencing voices.
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The controversial judicial reform, opposed by Israeli President Herzog and the United States and many other countries, includes limiting the powers of the Supreme Court, overriding court decisions by parliament, and reducing the judiciary's influence over the selection of judges. Within the framework of the reform, "the draft law that makes it difficult to dismiss the prime minister" was approved in the parliamentary vote in the past days.
