Thousands of people are protesting in front of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office where the cabinet is set to meet to vote on firing Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar.
The demonstrators march from Netanyahu’s residence to the nearby office amid driving rain.
The demonstrators are also protesting the government’s efforts to renew highly controversial legislation to increase political power over the judiciary, and the collapse of the Gaza ceasefire-hostage deal.
Speaking at the protest former Likud minister Dan Meridor says Netanyahu is a danger to democracy.
“I am convinced that when [former Prime Minister] Yitzhak Shamir called Netanyahu an angel of destruction, he did not imagine the destruction Netanyahu would bring to Israeli society,” Meridor says.
“The destruction he is trying to bring on the country — it happened in Turkey and Hungary, and now it is happening in Israel. Our democracy is in danger,” says Meridor, a former justice minister.
The demonstration comes after a day of protests that saw clashes with police who used water cannons on protestors.
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