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Israel: facing challenge to judicial reform, right-wing activists want dialogue
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Demonstration against Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's new right-wing coalition and against a justice system bill, in Tel Aviv, February 18, 2023. REUTERS - AMIR COHEN
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In Israel, new demonstrations took place on Saturday evening, throughout the country, against the new legislation that the most right-wing government that the country has known wants to put in place.
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With our correspondent in Jerusalem,
Michel Paul
For the seventh week in a row, Israelis in their tens of thousands took to the streets in all major cities across the country.
With, in Jerusalem, an innovation this time.
A few hundred meters from the usual demonstration, indeed: another rally.
Right-wing activists who call for consultation and dialogue.
Among the speakers, in particular, the former head of the Shin Bet, internal security, and also Yoaz Hendel, minister in the previous government.
The latter explains:
There are many Israelis who are worried about the situation and were not comfortable in the other demonstrations.
So we allow them here to express that voice: the responsible right in favor of judicial reform, but who thinks that the baby should not be drowned with the bathwater.
A more balanced reform is what Irene and Dina want: "
To really express my disapproval with all this desire to change the Constitution
", confides the first.
“
And above all, the watchword was to promote dialogue, we are for it!
We are for dialogue, both of us!
“adds the second.
Next demonstration this Monday in front of the Knesset, at the time of the vote on the new laws.
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