Protests in Israel continue against the judicial reform of the government of Benjamin Netanyahu, with hundreds of thousands of Israelis in the streets.
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The Israelis protested today in a new Saturday of demonstrations against the judicial reform.
After Netanyahu temporarily frozen the controversial plan last Monday after a massive wave of mobilizations.
According to the media, the protesters took to the streets again in different parts of Israel and cities such as Tel Aviv or Haifa.
While the organizers of the protests insisted on continuing to mobilize against the reform.
Which, according to critics, would undermine the independence of the judiciary and the separation of powers in Israel.
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Around 450,000 people demonstrated across Israel, including some 230,000 in Tel Aviv, according to the protest movements.
In this city, as has been the case in previous weeks, groups of protesters blocked traffic on the highway that crosses the city.
After which the Police used dispersion means and water cannons to remove them from the road and arrested 19 people.
All of this comes amid a deep political crisis in Israel, after Netanyahu was forced into it this week.
To slow down the momentum of his controversial reform plan, following massive protests that broke out on Sunday after his announcement to dismiss the defense minister.
And that on Monday led to a mobilization with more than 100,000 attendees in Jerusalem.
The judicial reform further aggravated political polarization in the country, generating the largest protest movement in Israel in recent decades.
Largely made up of the secular and liberal sector of Israeli society.
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Now, the president of Israel, Isaac Herzog, is trying to mediate between the government and opposition forces so that they reach a consensus on the judicial plan.
For his part, the Minister of National Security, the far-right Itamar Ben Gvir, pressured Netanyahu to continue with the reform despite the protests.
Finally, in exchange for agreeing to freeze the plan, he got Netanyahu to give his go-ahead.
To the creation of a new security body that Ben Gvir wants to have under his control.
In turn, its formation is expected to be approved tomorrow at the Sunday meeting of the Israeli Government Cabinet, something that creates controversy.
With information from EFE.
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