The live blog is now closed, thank you for joining us. These were the updates on mass protests in Israel on Monday, March 27.
The live blog is now closed, thank you for joining us. These were the updates on mass protests in Israel on Monday, March 27.
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced a delay to his bitterly contested plans to overhaul the country’s judiciary.
- Netanyahu’s hard-right coalition partner, Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, says he agreed to delay the judicial overhaul in return for the creation of a National Guard under his ministry.
- The judicial overhaul, which would give the executive control over appointing judges to the Supreme Court and allow the government to override court rulings, has drawn mass protests for weeks. Israel’s leading labour union, Histadrut, has announced a general strike, with its head saying that Israel had marched “to the abyss”.
- Netanyahu dismissed Defence Minister Yoav Gallant a day after Gallant spoke out against the planned judicial reforms.