Protests grow in Israel, the wife of the prime minister is trapped in the hairdresser

In Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife, Sara Netanyahu, has been freed from the hair salon where she was trapped during a protest against government rules restricting the powers of the judiciary, after police used force to drive away protesters. .

The Prime Minister’s wife, Sara Netanyahu, was trapped in a hair salon in Tel Aviv, during acts of civil disobedience against government regulation that restricts the powers of the judiciary. According to media reports, hundreds of people gathered in front of the hair salon where Sara Netanyahu went, unfurled the giant Israeli flag and chanted slogans.

Haaretz passed the information that the Israeli police sent reinforcements to the area and began to force the protesters away from the area.

Prime Minister Netanyahu, while his wife was still at the hairdresser, made a statement on his social media account: “The (Yair) anarchists continue to cross red lines under the leadership of Lapid. They are currently threatening and harassing my wife Sara. “I call on Lapid and the opposition to stop this immediately and end this shameful, unprecedented situation,” he said.

Israelis have been on the streets against judicial reform for almost two months.

The opposition Lapid and former Defense Minister Benny Gantz called on the protesters to allow Netanyahu to leave the room.

YOU CAN LEAVE WITH POLICE PROTECTION

Israeli television broadcast live the evacuation of Netanyahu’s wife from the hair salon in Tel Aviv, under heavy security, after the police forcibly removed the protesters.

Sara Netanyahu, who is well known to the Israeli public, is on the “expensive gifts” dossier of corruption cases prosecuting her husband, alleging that at his request tens of thousands of dollars were handed over to her in business gifts. .

Mass demonstrations against the Netanyahu government’s judicial regulations in Israel continued in the capital Tel Aviv into the night.

THE BOOM GROWS IN ISRAEL

As part of the civil disobedience actions that took place throughout the country against the judicial regulation of the Netanyahu government in Israel, the protesters had closed some roads, train stations and main transport arteries since morning hours.

During the protests in Tel Aviv, the Israeli police intervened with the protesters with batons, mounted troops, TOMA and sound bombs. National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has declared that he supports “all the methods used by the Israeli police to disperse anarchists blocking the roads.”

Netanyahu also asserted that the right to protest does not “mean to cause anarchy” and said: “We will not accept violence against police officers, blocking roads, breaking laws.”

Israeli police announced that at least 39 people had been detained across the country.

In Israel, regular mass protests have been taking place for about two months, with the participation of tens of thousands of Israelis, against the Netanyahu government’s judicial regulation that restricts the powers of the judiciary and provides for the power to have a say in the courts. judicial appointments and other right-wing policies. (AA)