Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition leader Yair Lapid trade accusations as police use force against protesters in Tel Aviv.
“It is forbidden to hit police,” Netanyahu says to reporters, “and it is forbidden to disrupt life in the country, to block roads.”
He says Lapid is refusing to discuss the judicial overhaul and instead is trying to foster “anarchy… He wants to bring about a crisis of governance, I’d say, a constitutional crisis,” Netanyahu says, “and thus to get to new elections… It’s time to end the anarchy.”
“Netanyahu, the only anarchy here is created by the government, which you have lost control over,” Lapid responds on Twitter.
“Bibi, the one who gave Ben Gvir explosives to play with knew it would end in an explosion,” he says.
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