Anti-overhaul protesters gather outside US mission in Tel Aviv as Herzog speaks

A few hundred protesters gather outside of the US Embassy’s Tel Aviv Branch Office, calling for American intervention against the Israeli government’s plan to increase political power over the judiciary.

A far smaller crowd than a similar protest outside the mission last evening, the group assembles while President Isaac Herzog addresses a joint session of the US Congress.

“There’s no such thing as democracy without the High Court of Justice, without equality,” they chant, while others blown horns.

Earlier, hundreds of anti-judicial overhaul protesters gathered in Tel Aviv’s HaBima square, in a protest sponsored by women’s group Building an Alternative.

Many are clad in the organization’s signature red color, and the predominantly female crowd holds signs reading “girls just want to have fun-damental rights” and one with the picture of a uterus, accompanied by the text “this machine kills fascism.”

“Do you want to fight for our rights?” a representative from Building an Alternative asks the crowd. “I know it’s hot today, but in a dictatorship it will be even hotter!” she shouts.