Published: 21 August 2017
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Police under pressure for blocking anti-Netanyahu protest (Times of Israel)
Israel’s police force was facing a growing pile of questions over a decision to block a weekly protest outside the home of Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit the previous evening and to arrest two of the organisers (Aug 20)
Police block, detain anti-Netanyahu protest leaders (Jerusalem Post)
Police set up roadblocks in Petah Tikva on Saturday night, after revoking the permit for what would have been the 39th consecutive Saturday night protest near Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit’s home. Police banned the demonstration “because of a significant change in the size of the demonstrations and their character” (Aug 19)
What Israel police fail to grasp (Haaretz)
EDITORIAL It seems the police see the right to demonstrate as an unnecessary nuisance, preferring to adopt the McCarthyist spirit blowing over Israel based on the desire to suppress any opposition to the regime (Aug 20)
Photo: Demonstrators at a protest against government corruption in Petah Tikva, on August 19 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
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