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Saturday, March 8, 2025
Protesters against judicial overhaul to march in Tel Aviv this evening
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Leaders of protests against the government’s judicial overhaul will hold a march in Tel Aviv this evening, apparently for the first time in 17 months.
The protest comes after Justice Minister Yariv Levin began the process of removing Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara from her post, accusing her of having politicized her office and repeatedly thwarting the will of the government, and amid a coalition push for the firing of Shin Bet head Ronen Bar.
“Just as we stopped the coup in 2023 and just as we enlisted in the military and reserves and stopped the collapse of the state in 2024, so in 2025 we will prevent destruction again and stop the coup and the abandonment of the hostages,” the protest leaders say in a statement, according to Hebrew media.
The protest leaders will gather tonight at 6:45 p.m. at Tel Aviv’s Habima Square and then march to join the hostages’ families’ protest at IDF Headquarters’ Begin Gate.
The march will be led by prominent figures from anti-overhaul protests, including Shikma Bressler, MK Efrat Rayten, Moshe Radman Abutbul and Yaya Fink.
Protests against the judicial overhaul were frozen in the wake of the October 7, 2023, terror onslaught, with many of the activist organizations taking a leading role in many civil society initiatives.
The Times of Israel Community.