The judicial revamp proposed the Prime Minister Benjamin netanyahu's hard drive government has split Israel and sparked one of the biggest protest movements in the country's history oceans of Israeli Flags steady drum beats cries of democracy water cannons police on Horseback protesters dragged
off the ground for seven straight months tens of thousands of Israelis have taken to the streets with a key portion of the overhaul nearing a final vote early next week protesters allowing further days of disruption and calling for strife and general unrest in scorching heat that reached 33 degrees Celsius
marches completed the last leg of a four day 70 kilometer Trek from Tel Aviv to Israel's parliament so wire is ready still protesting netanyahu's Ultra Nationalist and Ultra Orthodox religious allies say that the package is meant to restore power to elected officials critics say it is a power grab fuel by
various personal and political grievances by Netanyahu who is on trial for corruption charges and his Partners who want to deepen Israel's control of the occupied West Bank and control of the occupied West Bank and exemptions for ultra-orthodox men the proposals include a bill that
would allow a simple majority in Parliament to overturn Supreme Court decisions another would give Parliament the final stay in selecting judges on Monday the parliament is expected to vote on a key bill that would prevent the Supreme Court from striking down government decisions on the basis that
they are unreasonable proponents say that the current reasonability standard gives judges excessive Powers over decision making by elected officials but critics say that removing the standard which is invoked only in their cases would allow the government to pass arbitrary decisions make improper appointments or firings and open the door to corruption protesters
say that Netanyahu and his allies want to change the law so they can appoint cronies to government hosts and particularly so that they can fire the country's independent attorney general in a speech on Thursday Netanyahu dismissed Acquisitions that the plan would destroy the sales Democratic
foundations as absurd to tests have intensified as equations efforts to make the overhaul into law have moved forward on Tuesday protesters crippled the city's Main Highway and blocked train stations and thousands of people marched nearly 50 miles from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem over the weekend
ahead of Monday's vote meanwhile Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin netanyahu's office said earlier on July 23 that he was undergoing a procedure to receive a pacemaker in a short statement netanyahu's office said that Israel's leader would be placed under sedation a top Deputy Justice Minister yarim Levin will stand in for him .
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