BREAKING: Israel's parliament approved a key part of a contentious judicial overhaul, making it law. Opposition lawmakers walked out en masse from the chamber.
The vote came only hours after NetanyahuHis sudden hospitalization added another dizzying twist to an already dramatic series of events, which were watched closely in Washington. The Biden administration has frequently spoken out against Netanyahu’s government and its overhaul plan. In a statement to the news site Axios late Sunday, President Joe Biden warned against pushing ahead with the legal changes that were sparking so much division.
Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul plan outside the parliament in Jerusalem. of the West Bank. As lawmakers debated, tens of thousands of people gathered for mass rallies for and against the plan. “The state of Israel stands before destruction and ruin that is being brought upon it by a gang of extremists and kooks. We must go up to Jerusalem today!” one branch ofNetanyahu’s supporters, meanwhile, thronged central Tel Aviv — normally the setting for anti-government protests.
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