The women have wandered the streets of Tel Aviv with their heads lowered and hands clasped, just like in the film adaptation of Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel. In recent weeks, pictures of the group have spread all over the world.

Together with hundreds of thousands of Israelis, they have demonstrated against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's legal reforms and at the same time want to highlight problems such as men's violence against women and sexual assault.

Bonot Alternativa is critical of the low proportion of women in the government and believes that the policy being pursued is misogynistic.

Supported by Atwood

"Handmaid's tale" depicts a dystopian future in which women are forced to live as slaves under rock-solid patriarchal laws.

Bonot Alternative founder Moran Zer Katzenstein has drawn parallels to Netanyahu's bill: "Women will be the first to be harmed."

Canadian author Margaret Atwood and shared clips of the protesters on Twitter.

"I have never seen so many Handmaids protesters march like this," she writes.

On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he agrees to postpone the ruling on the contentious judicial reform.