Living Democracy-Jerusalem protests show rage against Netanyahu is no longer waiting for the end of the war

 The major demonstration in front of the Knesset and government offices on Sunday night was something of a replica of the mass struggles against the judicial overhaul last year.

The same crop of people — generally voters for centrist parties,  the same energy as was seen in the demonstration when the Knesset repealed the High Court’s reasonableness standard last summer; the same resolve against the prime minister, who once tried to eliminate democracy. 

For many of the demonstrators — who flooded Jerusalem’s Kaplan Street like a human tidal wave, from Cinema City, past the Knesset, to the new National Library — it was a kind of reunion after a six-month hiatus.

Protests against Netanyahu escalate in Israel as thousands mass in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv

Yair Lapid, the leader of Israel’s parliamentary opposition, spoke at the Jerusalem rally and decried the government for being irresponsible and ineffective.

credit: Jerusalem Post  and TOI