Correspondent in Jerusalem
The organizers had promised 1 million people.
They were finally between 150,000 and 200,000 in Jerusalem, to support judicial reform.
A figure all the same substantial in Israel: Thursday evening, we barely made our way through the wide avenues surrounding Parliament.
Brandishing the Israeli flag, often wearing a yarmulke or a large headscarf, many of them came with their families, the demonstrators gathered, unable to approach the platform, around giant screens on which the champions of judicial reform followed one another. suspended by Binyamin Netanyahu a month ago, when the country was on the verge of implosion, and whose future is uncertain.
Were they there to support their government or put pressure on it?
“
A bit of both
,” concedes Yossef.
This father, a child on his shoulders, a gun on his hip, came with his wife from Shilo, a settlement in the northern West Bank.
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