Published: 2 October 2020
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Knesset passes bill clamping down on protests after all-night session (Times of Israel)
Lawmakers okay controversial measure forbidding travel of over a kilometre to reach demonstrations or prayers and limiting attendance to 20 people only
Knesset passes law allowing limiting of protests under lockdown (Haaretz)
Discussion on legislation barring protesters from traveling more than a kilometre from their homes to attend a demonstration ran late into the night
GERSHOM GORENBERG: The disease Netanyahu fears isn’t Covid-19; it’s dissent (Washington Post)
After outcry, Gantz says IDF troops won’t police anti-government protests (Times of Israel)
Soldiers have been reinforcing cops at checkpoints during lockdown, leading to some public anger over involving military in policing demonstrations
Editorial - A body blow to democracy (Haaretz)
Photo: Police arrest a demonstrator against the amendment to the Corona Law in Tel Aviv, September 29 (Tomer Appelbaum)
