Israelis protest again against PM Benjamin Netanyahu's controversial judicial reform plans, days after he said he had dropped a key provision in the project
Although there were no figures immediately available for the number of people who demonstrated in Tel Aviv, the protests regularly bring together tens of thousands of people. / Photo: AFP
The demonstrators on Saturday have kept up the pressure with weekly rallies against Netanyahu, who returned to power last December at the head of a coalition with radical and extremist parties. In March, as the mass protests were backed by sweeping industrial action, Netanyahu announced a"pause" to allow for talks on the reforms, which were moving through parliament and split the nation.
"I already changed a few things right after the original proposal was put forward," Netanyahu told the newspaper.
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