The protests rocking Israel have been extraordinary not just in size but in composition. The Post spoke with protesters about why they were in the streets.
TEL AVIV — The protests that have rocked Israel since January — the largest sustained mass demonstrations in the country’s history — have been extraordinary not just in size but in composition.
The judicial overhaul would give Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition of ultra-Orthodox and nationalist settler parties more power to pick judges and override Supreme Court decisions. The push to limit the Supreme Court’s ability to curb the government would embolden the religious parties in the coalition to go further, she said. She doesn’t want her children to grow up in a “theocratic” state.
Her normally placid town has been unnerved by the government’s push to weaken the courts. Some of her neighbors are thinking of leaving the country.“We are not sleeping well,” she said. “I want to be here. I’m Jewish, and I love this country.”David Shalita has the Israeli flag draped over his shoulders. He’s one of thousands of protesters wearing or waving the national banner — so many they shimmer like a blue-and-white layer of clouds over the crowd.
“I’m terrified of an Israel in which a small majority will be able to cancel all of our rights,” he said. “It would be a kind ofGuttman, 24, comes from a right-wing, religious family in Maalot, a northern Israeli town, where he says intolerance has been growing. In the schools, he said, they are teaching “that coming out of the closet is not legitimate. … If this reform passes, that is the direction this country is going in.
He said that the recent Knesset decision to legitimize several key settlement outposts in the northern West Bank will embolden other settlers to build there and increase violent tensions with the Palestinians.He is still deliberating whether he will serve in the army when he reaches age 18, a requirement for all Jewish Israelis. He has fought for years against the occupation, he said, and fears the new legislation could make it worse.
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