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Several dozen hold 1st anti-overhaul demonstration in West Bank’s Maaleh Adumim
Deputy Editor Amanda Borschel-Dan is the host of The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing and What Matters Now podcasts and heads up The Times of Israel's Jewish World and Archaeology coverage.
Several dozen protest against the judicial overhaul in a first demonstration in the West Bank settlement city of Maaleh Adumim.
The protest, which takes place across from the city’s central police station, is accompanied by a much smaller counter-protest of some dozen in favor of the overhaul legislation.
The settlement of some 40,000 is a traditional Likud stronghold.
Two police vehicles and half a dozen officers are keeping order between the two groups as the pro-legislation side uses heavy amplification to drown out the chants of “democracy” from the larger anti-overhaul protest.
“You are traitors, you’re from Azaria,” says one pro-overhaul protestor, referring to the neighboring Palestinian village.
