More than 230,000 protesters took to the streets of the city. Israel on a new day of protests against controversial judicial reform promoted by the executive branch Benjamin Netanyahuorganizers said.

The demonstrations this Saturday marked the twenty-first consecutive week of protests, with the city of Tel Aviv at the center of their attention.

Protest groups also concentrated in cities from the north to the south of the country, including important urban centers such as Jerusalem, Haifa or Beersheba.

More than 150,000 people gathered in central Tel Aviv, with about 85,000 more protesting in the rest of Israel, according to organizers.

These figures represent an increase from last weekwhen the protests were also focused on the state budget, approved on Wednesday, which provides important benefits for the ultra-Orthodox Jewish population, which, like the far right, is represented in the government led by Netanyahu.

“Certainly, We will continue our efforts to reach a consensus agreementas much as possible on the issue of judicial reform,” the president said this week after the approval of the budgets.

“Now it is clear that the talks at the presidential residence were only an excuse for Netanyahu to buy time,” the protest organizers replied, citing dialogue between power and opposition promoted by President Isaac Herzog.

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“The government is one vote away from approving judicial reform that will undermine Israel’s democratic institutions. Only one thing stopped the government from its first attempt at judicial reform: hundreds of thousands of Israeli protesters. Our protest will stop Netanyahu again“, they added in a statement.

After a day of mass protests, the Prime Minister suspended trial reforms two months ago, giving way to negotiations that have not yet yielded results.

demonstrations; however, they have not stopped, and their leaders vehemently oppose any version of reform that give more power to the executive to the detriment of justice, whose independence would be seriously undermined.

The proposed text provides for projects such as the restructuring of the Committee for the Selection of Judges or disputed point limit the powers of the Supreme Court.

EFE