![]() It wasn't violent, but people were barricading the highway of violence. What we do in every demonstration is the same playing drums and marching like the most nonviolent thing you can do. the major place where the stations are in Tel Aviv, and we just took the Ayalon Highway. And we took the motorbike and we drove to. SEGAL: We got messages on WhatsApp from different groups. The news spread across Israel after midnight to people like Yaniv Segal. Well, that prompted Galant to speak out, so Netanyahu fired him. The protest movement had spread to elite Israeli army units that declared they would not serve if the judicial legislation passed. ![]() SEGAL: And then suddenly we heard that Netanyahu fired his minister of defense.ĬHAKRABARTI: On Saturday, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, a member of Netanyahu's Likud Party, spoke out against the judicial overhaul. He'd just wrapped up a Zoom meeting with other activists. So Sunday, normally we rest a bit from the demonstrations of the weekend.ĬHAKRABARTI: On Sunday, Yaniv was relaxing at home in Tel Aviv. YANIV SEGAL: Saturday is the center of the week because of the massive demonstrations that we have all around Israel. Wave after wave of protests and demonstrations against Netanyahu's proposed reforms, drawing people like Yaniv Segal into the streets. This is a very worthy goal.'įor the past three months, Israeli society has been profoundly divided. We have the opportunity to achieve a broad consensus. I, as Prime Minister, I'm taking a time out for dialog.ĬHAKRABARTI: Netanyahu said, quote, 'We insist on the need to bring about the necessary corrections in the legal system. NETANYAHU : When there's an opportunity to avoid civil war through dialog. ![]() On Monday night, Netanyahu spoke to the Israeli people, saying he would pause his government's highly controversial efforts to overhaul the country's judiciary. MEGHNA CHAKRABARTI: It was the threat of civil war, not the sundering of democratic norms that forced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's hand, for now. Yaniv Segal, a leader of the Pink Front, a group of young activists in Israel who have protested against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Today, On Point: What’s at the root of Israel’s democratic crisis? Guestsĭahlia Scheindlin, public opinion researcher and international political strategist. “Everybody started to realize how much it could touch and roll back the kinds of progress Israeli society has made in recent decades," Scheindlin says. The surging mass movement successfully delayed his attempt to overhaul the country’s judiciary.īut some see Netanyahu's actions as sign of deeper troubles for Israeli democracy. Israelis across the country are protesting against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. ![]()
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