Thousands of Israelis joined a march from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem on Friday in the latest protest of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's vow to push through a controversial overhaul of the judiciary system.
Hundreds of protesters became thousands as Israelis joined the 70-kilometre march throughout the day in a demonstration against one of Israel's most far-right governments in history.The demonstrators planned to camp overnight at Shoresh, about 18 kilometres from Jerusalem, before making their way to Israel's parliament on Saturday, the Jewish holy day of Shabbat.
Protesters carried Israelis flags and political signs in a line four kilometres long that wound through olive orchards and farmland. They'd left seaside Tel Aviv on Thursday, camping overnight roughly halfway to Jerusalem near the Latrun Monastery. The bill is one of several keystone pieces of the Netanyahu government's judicial overhaul plan. Netanyahu and his allies -- a collection of ultranationalist and ultra-Orthodox parties -- say the plan is needed to curb what they consider excessive powers of unelected judges.
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