Government critic at Tel Aviv protest: Oct. 7 did not change minds of judicial overhaul architects

Speakers at the demonstration against the government in Tel Aviv are calling for early elections to be held.

Yaniv Roznai, a constitutional scholar who is a critic of the government’s proposed judicial overhaul says that “October 7 did not make the architects of the judicial overhaul rethink what they’re doing.”

He lists a series of policies initiated by the government that he says show the judicial overhaul is still being, particularly noting Justice Minister Yariv Levin’s refusal to hold hearings for judicial candidates he doesn’t consider “nationalist” enough.

After Roznai, Einav Zangauker, whose son Matan is a hostage, speaks.

“Netanyahu and Smotrich are planning on building villas in Gaza on top of the bodies of the murdered and the hostages,” Zangauker says. “They want to build on top of my Matan, but this won’t happen.”

The protest ends and demonstrators walk down the streets to join the hostage demonstration on Begin Street.