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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 539

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Protesters surround MK Yuli Edelstein as he walks to synagogue in Herzliya the day after three women were arrested for placing hostage flyers in the house of worship, September 14, 2024 (Yair Palti/Pro-Democracy Protest groups)
September 15, 2024, 11:49 pm
Edelstein’s synagogue denies calling police on women who distributed hostage flyers
Herzliya synagogue official calls arrests ‘insane’; Likud MK offers his full backing to police, claims there was a break-in despite video showing building was open
By ToI Staff
Israelis protest for the release of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza outside the Defense Ministry Headquarters in Tel Aviv, September 10, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 10, 2024, 11:33 pm
Families say lives of hostages ‘hang by a thread,’ as demos held after tunnel video shown
Hundreds urge deal, block Tel Aviv traffic; families say video of tunnel where 6 hostages were executed shows ‘cruelty’ of conditions, hold PM responsible; Danino pleads for unity
By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff
Hili Cooper (with microphone) and Or Nohomovitch (right), tell protesters how they miss their grandfather, Amiram Cooper, held hostage in Gaza, at a rally for the release of Israelis kidnapped by Hamas terrorists, at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, February 10, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)
February 23, 2024, 10:55 am
They may cry ‘shame!’ at PM, but hostage families’ group says it has no partisan agenda
‘They’re speaking out against the person in charge,’ explains families’ forum member; ‘When hostages were seized, no one asked about their families’ political stance,’ says another
By Jessica Steinberg
Demonstrators burst into a meeting of the Knesset Finance Committee to call for government action to free their relatives held hostage by Hamas in Gaza, January 22, 2024. At right is Gilad Korngold, whose son Tal Shoham was kidnapped from Kibbutz Be’eri and is still held in Gaza (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)
January 22, 2024, 3:26 pm
Relatives of hostages burst into Knesset Finance Committee, demand government action
Protesters say they have been ‘forgotten’ as Netanyahu touts mysterious ‘initiative’ to free hostages held in Gaza but declines to elaborate
By Sam Sokol
Anti-judicial overhaul protesters in Maale Adumim. (Courtesy)
September 17, 2023, 3:41 pm
In the major West Bank settlements, anti-judicial overhaul rallies gather steam
Small but growing groups of protesters – many of whom are disillusioned with a government they voted for – take to the streets in some of the far-right’s strongholds
By Gavriel Fiske
Minister May Golan, left, argues with a protester at Ben-Gurion airport on August 7, 2023. (screen capture: Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 8, 2023, 5:40 am
After minister alleges attack by protester, video appears to show her as aggressor
Likud’s May Golan says she and her mother were assaulted at the airport, but unedited footage shows the politician pushing the protester back and her mom trying to throw punches
By ToI Staff
Several thousand doctors pack into Jerusalem's International Convention Center for a Israel Medical Association-organized rally protesting the government's judicial overhaul plans. July 23, 2023. (Renee Ghert-Zand/Times of Israel)
July 23, 2023, 10:08 pm
With Israel ‘on the edge of disaster,’ thousands of doctors protest in Jerusalem
Arriving in the capital Sunday for a major rally, physicians argue ‘reasonableness’ law will cause irreversible damage to healthcare system, patients and medical profession
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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 23, 2023, 4:09 pm
As judiciary fight reaches a climax, both sides set to lose
Without the support of a skeptical political center, no result in the vote on a law curbing the courts will offer any side the sustained victory it seeks
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Anti-judicial overhaul demonstrators protest against the judicial overhaul in Haifa, on July 11, 2023 (Photo by Shir Torem/Flash90)
July 11, 2023, 1:08 pm
Daily Briefing Jul 11: Day of Disruption protests pop up ‘like mushrooms after rain’
Knesset correspondent Carrie Keller-Lynn and legal affairs reporter Jeremy Sharon discuss first Knesset vote on ‘reasonableness’ bill and Tuesday’s anti-overhaul demonstrations
By ToI Staff
Former chief justice Aharon Barak in tears as supporters sing Israeli national anthem outside his Tel Aviv home, April 20, 2023. (Screenshot, Twitter/ Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 21, 2023, 5:12 am
Ex-chief justice Barak moved to tears as thousands rally in support outside his home
Protest comes a day after pro-overhaul demonstrators gathered at the elderly justice’s residence in Tel Aviv, hurling insults and ill wishes
By ToI Staff
Supporters of the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's judicial overhaul plan rally near the Knesset in Jerusalem, Monday, March 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Oren Ziv)
March 30, 2023, 7:14 pm
‘Break their bones’: Ahead of right-wing TA rally, some activists call for violence
Voice notes and text messages circulating in WhatsApp groups ahead of pro-government demonstration threaten overhaul opponents and journalists
By ToI Staff
A 'Happy Purim' tweet on March 6, 2023, from Likud's Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi in which also he told IDF reservists protesting the coalition's judicial overhaul: ‘Go to hell' (Twitter)
March 7, 2023, 12:59 am
‘Go to hell,’ Likud minister tells IDF reservists protesting judicial overhaul
In Purim message, Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi vows judicial shakeup will move forward, since ‘it was for this moment that we came to power’
By ToI Staff
One of the suspects caught on camera while throwing eggs at anti-government protesters outside Justice Minister Yariv Levin's home in Modiin, January 19, 2022. (Twitter/Screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
January 19, 2023, 1:59 pm
Anti-government protesters assaulted outside justice minister’s home
Suspects detained; two demonstrators lightly injured; ‘These are challenging days for Israeli democracy,’ one activist says, vowing to continue fight against judicial upheaval
By ToI Staff
Protesters with old Belarusian national flags march during an opposition rally to protest the official presidential election results in Minsk, Belarus, September 20, 2020. (AP Photo/TUT.by)
December 18, 2020, 6:16 am
Belarus Holocaust survivor won’t waver after hefty fine for flying protest flag
87-year-old Elizaveta Yakovlevna Bursova, who survived WWII hiding in the Urals and later became a sharpshooter for her country’s military: ‘This symbol unites our whole society’
By Joe Baur
Damage to Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson's car after a man ran in front of it as it left the Houses of Parliament, in London, June 17, 2020. (Victoria Jones/PA via AP)
June 17, 2020, 6:30 pm
Boris Johnson’s car hit in minor crash; no injuries reported
British prime minister’s vehicle rammed from behind after stopping suddenly when protester ran in front of convoy
By AP
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