Israel president urges calm amid plans for more protests over judicial reform

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Protests had escalated after Israel's parliament passed a key element that aims to curb the power of the Supreme Court. Read more at straitstimes.com.

to refrain from violence, using the occasion of a Jewish fast on Thursday to appeal for reconciliation as protesters vowed more demonstrations.

Demonstrations for and against the judicial overhaul were on hold for Tisha B’av, the fast day mourning the destruction of two ancient Jewish temples in Jerusalem blamed by tradition on needless infighting. The legal tussle will begin as early as next Thursday, however, when the top court will hear an appeal against a coalition bill ratified in March that limited conditions for removing the prime minister from office.

Mr Netanyahu said the reforms will balance government branches. He casts the protests as a bid to thwart his democratic mandate. A Palestinian group aligned with the Islamist movement Hamas said it fired a rocket from the occupied West Bank into Israel in retaliation. The Israeli army said security forces had located and dealt with improvised rocket remnants near the town of Silat al-Harithiya, in the northern West Bank near Jenin.

Hamas condemned what it described as “large raids by settlers and ministers in the government of the Zionist enemy” at the compound. Jordan and Saudi Arabia also both condemned what they described as “the storming” of the compound.Mr Netanyahu’s plans have hit the economy by drawing warnings from credit agencies, triggering foreign investor flight.

 

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