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Anti-overhaul march to Jerusalem

Police use putrid Skunk liquid to disperse demonstrators blocking a road during a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government in Jerusalem on May 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
April 17, 2025, 9:04 am
Critics cry foul as police use noxious Skunk liquid to disperse anti-government protests
Authorities have sprayed the putrid substance out of water cannons at Palestinian and Haredi demonstrators for years. Now they’re turning it against political protesters
By Charlie Summers
Shikma Bressler, a leader of the protest movement against the government's judicial overhaul, arrives with bodyguards at the weekly protest in Tel Aviv on September 30, 2023. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
October 5, 2023, 2:29 pm
Protest leader vows not to let coalition ‘take democracy away,’ predicts its collapse
Physicist Shikma Bressler, who has become a leading face of the anti-overhaul rallies, warns of choice between ‘tyranny’ or system ‘that will ensure our liberal democratic values’
By Jay Deshmukh
Tens of thousands of demonstrators march into Jerusalem on July 22, 2023, completing a multi-day march that started in Tel Aviv to protest the government's judicial overhaul legislation (Amir Terkel)
July 22, 2023, 9:43 pm
Anti-overhaul march reaches Knesset as multitudes protest looming vote to limit courts
National conflict comes to a head as hundreds of thousands demonstrate throughout country against ‘reasonableness’ bill; coalition officials vow to pass it within days regardless
By ToI Staff
Thousands of Israelis march along a highway towards Jerusalem in protest of plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system, near Abu Gosh, Israel, July 22, 2023 (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
July 22, 2023, 11:32 am
Tens of thousands march to Knesset in last-ditch effort to stop 1st overhaul bill
Protesters arrive in Jerusalem as coalition to pass law curtailing judicial oversight in coming days; protests to be held in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, 150 other locations for 29th week
By ToI Staff
Demonstrators march with Israeli flags during a 'Day of Resistance' to protest the government's judicial overhaul plans, near the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on July 18, 2023. (Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP)
July 22, 2023, 7:38 am
Protesters to rally for 29th week in final stand against passing of 1st overhaul law
March to Jerusalem heads to Knesset on Saturday evening; demonstrations at Kaplan Street in Tel Aviv, at PM’s residence, nationwide as coalition about to pass ‘reasonableness’ law
By ToI Staff
Anti-overhaul activists, who are marching to Jerusalem, gather at Shoresh outside the capital on Friday evening, July 21, 2023. (Aviv Hasidov)
July 22, 2023, 1:34 am
Anti-overhaul pilgrimage regroups outside Jerusalem ahead of final march to Knesset
10,000 hold communal Shabbat service outside capital as they ready for last day of trek that will conclude with protest, as coalition gets ready to pass 1st judicial overhaul bill
By ToI Staff
Marchers along Route 424 on Thursday evening, July 20 2023, on the way to Kibbutz Nahshon where they spent their third night during the march to Jerusalem. (Gitai Palti)
July 21, 2023, 1:23 pm
As tensions boil, thousands of protesters march in self-styled pilgrimage to Jerusalem
Activists now on 4th day of their trek from Tel Aviv to the Knesset, an event at once combative and festive, as coalition prepares next week to pass first judicial overhaul bill
By Charlie Summers
Demonstrators march with Israeli flags along a highway near Tel Aviv during a protest against the Israeli government's judicial overhaul on July 18, 2023. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)
July 19, 2023, 5:45 am
Hoping to head off ‘reasonableness’ bill, protesters begin 4-day march to Jerusalem
Hundreds of activists, including protest leaders, spend night at Ariel Sharon Park, urge more to join as group makes way to capital in time for vote on controversial legislation
By ToI Staff
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