Ben Gvir agrees with Netanyahu to delay judicial reform in the face of massive protests in Israel
The announcement comes after an extensive day of demonstrations throughout the country and the call for a general workers’ strike.
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The Minister of National Security of Israel, Itamar Ben Gvir, has agreed today with the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, delay the processing of judicial reform several months, but not definitively suspend it, as reported by his Jewish Power party. The decision comes after the massive protests last night, when more than 650,000 people they went out into the street.
The far-right minister, who until now was the most reluctant member of the Government to pause this legislation despite the massive protests, has indicated that he has agreed to “an extension until the next session to approve the reform through negotiations”.
The next session will start in Mayafter the break for the Jewish Passover and will last until Julythus giving the government three months to continue negotiating with the opposition.
This announcement comes after an extensive day of demonstrations throughout the country and the call for a general strike of workerswithin the framework of a historic protest movement that began three months ago.
The protest movement does not stop, with more than 100,000 Israelis demonstrating today in Jerusalem in front of the Knesset, and after last night more than 650,000 people took to the streets across the country in response to the dismissal by Netanyahu of the defense ministerthe first member of his government to publicly ask to stop the reform.
The judicial reform seeks increase executive control over justiceundermining its independence.
Source: Eitb
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