Protesters against the government’s judicial reform plan blocked highways and train service on Wednesday as part of what they dubbed a “National Disruption Day.”
The protests began early in the morning when members of “Brothers in Arms” and other protesters blocked Highway 1 in the Sha’ar HaGai area with barbed wire, blocking the entrance to Jerusalem. About an hour later, the police dispersed the protesters and Highway 1 was opened to traffic.
However, protesters continued to try to block highways throughout Israel and at about noon, clashes between the police and protesters took place as hundreds of protesters broke through police barriers in Tel Aviv and tried to stop traffic on the Ayalon Highway at the Shalom Interchange. Protesters also blocked Derech Begin in Tel Aviv. The police threw stun grenades at the crowd and used horses in an effort to disperse the protesters. Later in the afternoon, the police began using water cannons against the crowd in an effort to clear the protesters blocking major roads in Tel Aviv.
The police arrested at least 39 protesters, mainly in the Tel Aviv area, for disturbing public order and disobeying police orders. Some of the protesters were violent toward the police, throwing bottles and other objects at officers and smashing the windshield of a police car.
At least one protester was injured by a stun grenade:
כביש 1, הכביש המרכזי במדינה – נחסם בגדרות תיל על ידי חבורת פריבילגים, באירוע שהיה ידוע מראש. רוצים לנחש איפה המשטרה?
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— מאיר ליוש Meir Layosh (@MeirLayosh) March 1, 2023
Protesters in Tel Aviv blocked the entrances to trains at the HaHaganah Station to prevent passengers from boarding and prevent the trains from running.
Like all previous protests, some of the participants waved Palestinian flags, as seen below in a protest in Tel Aviv on Wednesday morning.
A statement published on Tuesday by the anti-judicial organizations said: “In the face of a dangerous coup d’état – fierce protest! Starting in the morning, the National Disruption Day will take place, as part of the fight against the regime coup. Throughout the day, there will be demonstrations, convoys and protest marches in cities, on bridges and at intersections. The day will open with parent and child marches in the morning and end with demonstrations in Tel Aviv and in front of the Prime Minister’s residence on Aza Street in Jerusalem.”
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir held a situational assessment on Tuesday evening with the Police Commissioner, Jerusalem District Commander and Tel Aviv District Deputy Commander and instructed the police not to allow the blocking of main highways.
“I am in favor of a democratic protest but we will not allow civil riots and won’t allow anarchists to block major thoroughfares,” Ben-Gvir said. “The daily life of Israeli citizens must be maintained. I have instructed Israel Police to open all roads that are blocked.”
Earlier, Israel Police announced that it “considers the right to protest as a cornerstone in a democratic country and allows all citizens to protest while adhering to the framework of law and public order. Israel Police will operate with zero tolerance for disturbances, damage to property and symbols of government and will not allow the blocking of traffic routes that are not approved by the police.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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V’nahafoch Hu. Great to see the liberals finally acting like and getting treated like chareidim!
I feel bad for those horses.
Looks like a bunch of anti democracy insurrectionists
So the Israeli Police are showing that they do NOT discriminate against Hareidim or right-wingers. They are abusive regardless of race, color or creed (as we would say in America). That is really more of a “bug” than a “feature”.
Protesting for upholding the law (of the supreme court) by breaking the law.
Protesting for democracy by denying citizens the democratic right to go about their live and routine.
Much of it paid by US and European tax-payers money!
4/5 of Klal Yisroel did NOT go out of Mitzraim and died during makas choshech. With the LGBTQ flag waving in the videos you’ve posted, we can understand these sodomite chiloni erev rav dogs are not interested in the final geula and what Moshiach has to say. Bye bye
They cheered when the Charedim were beaten by police. Now they are getting a taste of their own medicine!
Aha, so I guess protesting, shutting highways down and attacking police officers is okay by these left wing nutcases when it suits them. The chareidim are always demonized for this.
Where’s Gadolhadorah?? No comment yet?!
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Forget arresting individual protesters. Why are the organizers not being charged, as Moshe Feiglin was?
How many of you remember the 1999 “Hafganat Chatzi Million” – the PEACEFUL demonstration of close to half a million people AGAINST the interference of the Israeli Supreme Court in the lives of the chareidim?
As opposed to the current demonstrators who have not yet had any court rulings against them, we chareidim at the time had been suffering from Aharon Barak’s high-handedness and his unilateral left-wing rulings for years. And with a far larger turnout than what we are seeing today, there were no clashes at all. And this was despite there being a number of attempts at provocation.
ראו מה בין בני לבן חמי – look at the difference between G-d-fearing Yidden and the rabble of the left! If only their wish not to be Jewish could be fulfilled and they would leave Eretz Yisroel!
@couldbe: well said!
Vicious left-wing :
Sara Netanyahu’s hairdressee in shock “I’m in a storm of emotions, I can’t speak, I’ve been traumatized”
Mar.1.23
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The Likud party filed a complaint with the police against former MK Yair Golan, for incitement to violence, publications of sedition and damage to the order of the regime and society in the country – following his calls and participation tonight in the disturbed siege on the Prime Minister’s wife.
Mar.1.23
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The women of the coalition: We the women of the serving coalition and members of the Knesset express shock at the behavior of their anarchist privileges there is no limit.
Violent thugs laying siege to the prime minister’s wife.
We are shocked by the crossing of every possible border to the point of tracking, spying, humiliating, terrorizing …
A terrible riot against the wife of the Prime Minister, which miraculously ended perhaps without physical harm, but with the soul of the Prime Minister’s wife, must be condemned wholeheartedly with absolute condemnation.
Lost it completely!
We call for the prosecution of the thugs responsible for endangering the life of the Prime Minister’s wife.
Sarah, we strengthen you. Don’t break! It is a small and violent minority.
Signed:
The service and Knesset members of the coalition
In Israel a protest is not a picnic it is in the gut of these people they should boycott the army until the torah yidden can accommodate
This makes the peleg hafganot look like child’s play.