The Briefing Room
General Category => World News => Topic started by: libertybele on March 28, 2023, 07:56:32 pm
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I thought Netanyahu was very conservative -- I'm not quite understanding what's going on over there. Anyone??
Netanyahu said to now back overhaul freeze; anti-riot police clear out Tel Aviv rally
Workers begin to clear debris from Tel Aviv’s Ayalon Highway after a mass protest kept the central thoroughfare closed in both directions for five hours.
The workers are removing obstacles including metal barriers, the remains of bonfires, and other objects.
They say the work to clear the road will take hours and they hope to have it open to traffic by the morning.
Police say stones and other objects thrown by protesters injured three officers while they were clearing the highway.
Brothers in Arms, a prominent protest group led by reservists, calls for a protest at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the Knesset in Jerusalem.
The group says in a statement that the protest movement “got a breath” after weeks of demonstrations, apparently referring to the increasing calls from government figures to freeze the judicial overhaul legislation, but says the protesters must not let up.
“Now is the time that we must step up the pressure more and more, in every place, against the ministers and Knesset members,” the group says in a statement.
“We must make sure, without a doubt, that Israel will always be Jewish and democratic,” the group says...........
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-march-26-2023/