Thousands of people take to the streets in Tel Aviv and Haifa against judicial reform

May 4. (EUROPE PRESS) –

Thousands of people have returned this Thursday to take to the streets in Tel Aviv and Haifa in a new day of protests in Israel against the controversial judicial reform promoted by the coalition led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The protests, baptized as National Equality Day, have moved to various sectors, such as milk or high technology, with widespread demonstrations not only against judicial reform, but also to demand solutions to the increase in prices in Israel. and for the defense of democratic values.

A group of women dressed in the recognizable red costume from the television series The Handmaid’s Tale, based on a book by the writer Margaret Atwood, have protested with signs in front of the Religious Council of the Chief Rabbinate, alluding that the judicial reform has opened a path in Israel towards theocracy that prohibits women from enjoying their rights.

Likewise, another group of women have demanded equality for women in military service in front of an Israeli Army building in the Tel Hasgomer neighborhood, in the Tel Aviv district, with baby carriages that simulated coffins, adorned with the flag of Israel, has picked up the newspaper ‘The Jerusalem Post’.

Critics of the judicial reform argue that it is an attack on Israel’s balance of powers, fundamentally on the foundations on which democracy is based, since it gives Parliament unusual influence to overturn judicial decisions.