Didn’t You Learn a FINANCIAL Lesson? Likud Balking!

Anti-govt protests: Protesters chain themselves together, block road leading to ministries

'We'll block the revolution with our bodies,' protest group says in statement.

As the anti-government protests continue, on Tuesday, members of a group calling itself "Blocking the Revolution" chained themselves one to another and blocked the road leading to the buildings housing the Ministries of Finance, Interior, and Economy on Bank of Israel Street in Jerusalem.

The human blockade has so far prevented ministry employees from reaching their places of work as protesters focus on creating disruption. Police officers are at the scene and are working to open the blockade and move the protesters onto the sidewalk. Orders have been issued to the protesters telling them to move away, and they have been warned that failure to comply will lead to forcible evacuation. In response to the orders, the protesters sat down on the road. A spokesman for the protesters issued a statement saying: 

"We came here today to block access to government offices, with a clear message to deliver: 

‘If you don't start working for the public, we won't let you work at all. The 37th government of the state of Israel is not dealing with a single one of the issues that really matter to the public. It's not dealing with the cost-of-living crisis, it's not solving the crisis in education, it's not doing anything to rehabilitate the health service - what is it doing instead? It's legalizing institutional corruption, harming the freedom of the press, setting the country on fire, and neutering the independence of the judiciary. Ministers have forgotten that their job is to serve the public and not the other way around. Instead of working for us, we are working for them. 

"This is a wake-up call. Start dealing with the genuine problems of Israeli citizens - or your government will lose its legitimacy. Stop rushing headlong toward messianic dictatorship and start establishing a true democracy. Until that happens, we will continue to block the revolution with our bodies. We are absolutely determined to prevent the destruction of our future, and we won't stop until the revolution is halted." 

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Uproar in Likud: Rein in Ben-Gvir, we could go to the opposition

Likud MKs tell PM coalition is losing the argument on the judicial reforms, needs to moderate reforms and deal with right-wing minister.  

There are growing concerns in the Likud party that the efforts to pass Justice Minister Yariv Levin's judicial reforms as well as the behavior of National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir could cause the government to fall. [chicken little: the sky is falling! ] 

Read full article at http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/368666.  

Channel 12 News published quotes from the Likud faction meeting Monday in which party MKs demanded that the judicial reforms be moderated or even halted in order to create the opportunity for dialogue with the opposition on the reforms. […]