A group of several hundred protesters gathered outside of Justice Minister Yariv Levin’s home early Tuesday morning to protest against the judicial reform legislation, Hebrew media reported.
The demonstration comes in response to the coalition’s ongoing efforts to pass legislation aimed at narrowing the grounds for reasonable doubt in legal proceedings.
The protesters, who are members of Brothers in Arms, blocked streets with wired fences as well as set up a display that they called “dictatorship sausage from the Levin deli” and set tires on fire, causing traffic.
At least four arrests were made, and clashes between the demonstrators and the police ensued.
A-G opposes judicial reform bill, says it restricts reasonableness doctrine
On Monday, the Knesset held a deliberation session to address the proposed reforms concerning the narrowing of reasonable doubt.
The Attorney-General’s Office said that it opposes the judicial reform bill because it restricts the unreasonableness doctrine.
Hundreds of members of the reservist protest ”Brothers in Arms” demonstrated this morning in front of the home of Justice Minister Yariv Levin in Modi’in, blockong his exit from his home. (credit: BROTHERS IN ARMS)While there were issues with the reasonableness standard, which allows the court to engage in judicial review of government administrative decisions that it deems beyond the scope of a responsible authority, the difficulties in the application do not justify its cancellation, Deputy Attorney-General Gil Limon said at a session of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee.
Labor MK Gilad Kariv said the law was not commonly used, so there was little precedent for its use.
Protests in Tel Aviv entered their 25th week
Israelis blocked the Ayalon Highway on Saturday night as protests throughout Israel against the government’s planned judicial reform entered their 25th week in a row.
Protests initially started at Karkur Junction in northern Israel at around 6:25 p.m., while over 1,000 people were protesting at the Nahalal intersection on Highway 73.
Limor Regev, one of the organizers of the protests, said that “all the achievements to date are the result of the determination of the hundreds of thousands of demonstrators every Saturday for the past 25 weeks. We have five more weeks to go until the end of the Knesset session.
“There is fear that the Knesset leaders will try to corrupt laws in the remaining weeks,” Regev continued. “We are right here, right now, all over the country and plan to be the protective wall of Israeli democracy, we will be the iron wall for a liberal democratic state.”
Michael Starr and the Jerusalem Post Staff contributed to this article.
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