Massive pro-legal reform demonstration in Jerusalem
Government and right-wing supporters streamed to Jerusalem Thursday night to challenge the nearly three months of anti-judicial reform protest rallies staged against the government’s judicial reform program. An estimated 600,000 demonstrators were a mixed bag in terms of community, age, religious affiliation and politics and hailed from all over the country. Their main slogan addressed to the Netanyahu government, which is engaged in negotiations with the anti-reform opposition for a compromise formula, was “Don’t be scared to go through with the reform.”