Clashes broke out between demonstrators opposing Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and his supporters in the Jewish town of Uria near the city of Beit Shemesh, west of the occupied city of Jerusalem, where Ben Gvir was spending the weekend with his family.

The demonstrators clashed with hands and threw stones at each other, prompting the intervention of Israeli police forces to break up the clash, who arrested a number of demonstrators for throwing stones and disturbing public order and security, according to the official Israel Radio.

In addition to his position as Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir is an Israeli lawyer and political activist known for his far-right, head of the Jewish Greatness faction (Otzma Yehudit), a member of the Israeli Knesset (parliament), and participated more than once in attempts to storm the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Ben Gvir derived his radical ideas from the school of Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the Kach movement, who won a seat in the Israeli Knesset in 1984, before his movement was classified as "terrorist and fascist."

According to Kahanism, Ben Gvir believes in the idea that the Arabs in Palestine are enemies who must be violently driven out and unacceptable to coexist, and that all world Jews should emigrate to Palestine.


Warning of civil war

Meanwhile, former Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz expressed fear of a civil war in Israel, saying society was disintegrating from within.

This came in a tweet on Friday commenting on the increasing frequency of demonstrations against the judicial reform plan that Benjamin Netanyahu's government intends to implement.

Gantz, an opposition leader, said "I fear there will be a civil war here" in Israel, adding: "I think nobody wants that, but the deterioration is on a negative slope, and the risk of civil war is increasing."

"These are not prophecies stemming from anger, this is realistic, I live with my people and see how we are disintegrating," he said.

Former Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz expressed fear of civil war in Israel (Reuters)

On Wednesday, Israeli President Isaac Herzog made a similar statement, saying, "Whoever thinks that a real civil war is a limit that we will not reach does not understand."

Herzog presented a plan to resolve the dispute between the government and the opposition over the plan for judicial reforms.

He noted that his plan strengthens the Knesset, the government and the judicial system, and preserves "the Jewish and democratic State of Israel."

For more than 10 weeks, tens of thousands of Israelis have demonstrated almost daily against the Netanyahu government's planned judicial reform plan.

The opposition says the plan marks the beginning of the end of democracy, while Netanyahu says it aims to rebalance the executive, legislative and judicial powers.

The plan includes amendments limiting the powers of the Supreme Court and giving the government control over the appointment of judges.