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Israelis protests before hearing on judicial overhaul
Updated On: 12 September, 2023 09:04 AM IST | Modiin | Agencies
Scores of Israeli protesters on Monday flooded the streets outside the home of Israel’s justice minister
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Israeli police disperse protesters outside the residence of Justice Minister Yariv Levin. Pic/AP
Scores of Israeli protesters on Monday flooded the streets outside the home of Israel’s justice minister, the architect of the country’s divisive judicial overhaul, a day before the Supreme Court hears a crucial case against the curbing of its powers.
Israeli police said they arrested six people in the central Israeli town of Modiin, home to Justice Minister Yariv Levin, on charges of disrupting public order and blocking roads as they protested plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government to weaken the Supreme Court. The judicial plan has triggered one of the biggest domestic crises in Israeli history and exposed the country’s bitter divides.
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