Jerusalem woke up on Thursday to a long red line painted by protesters along roads leading to Israel’s Supreme Court, hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a judiciary reform deal planned by his government.
Police said they arrested five people who dressed up as workers to hold the protest overnight.
Drone footage showed a small group of people in protective suits painting a broad red banner along nearly deserted lanes running from a police and judiciary compound to the Supreme Court in central Jerusalem.
A slogan written in red on the lane in Hebrew, Arabic and English by the side of the road read: “Drawing the Line”.
The far-right government’s effort to limit the powers of the Supreme Court while increasing its power to select judges has raised alarms in Israel and abroad about democratic checks and balances in the country, as protests have intensified for weeks . .
In what they called “a day of resistance,” protesters blocked roads around the Tel Aviv mall and other cities. In the port of Haifa some demonstrators with flags on their boats tried to block the moorings.
“We are here to protest for our democracy, our country, because we feel our country is under brutal attack from the government, the Israeli government,” choreographer Renana Raz said in Tel Aviv.
Source: Terra
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