Israeli Parliament Protest

ISRAEL – An Israeli parliament review panel on Monday approved for a possible ratification of a key bill in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contested judicial overhaul.

During a stormy Knesset Constitution Committee session on the bill that would give the religious-nationalist coalition more control over appointments of judges, various opposition lawmakers banged on the round table and yelled, “Shame, shame,” while some were escorted out of the hall.

This came after a mass overnight protests in response to the sacking of the Israeli defence minister which piled pressure on the government to halt its bitterly contested plans to overhaul the judiciary.