Rival protests outside event attended by Netanyahu

Adolf Goebbels
Published on Apr 18, 2023
(12 Apr 2023)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Hadera, Israel - 12 April 2023
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Pan from anti-government protesters to government supporters with banner reading (Hebrew): "Loyal to the Declaration of Independence"
2. Wide of government supporters UPSOUND (Hebrew): "The people voted for reform." ++CONTAINS PROTESTERS MAKING EXPLICIT GESTURE++
3. Close of government supporter chanting in Hebrew "Shame"
4. Tracking shot of anti-government protesters, UPSOUND chanting (Hebrew): "Democracy"
5. Mid of anti-government protesters, UPSOUND chanting (Hebrew): "Shame"
6. Close of anti-government protester blowing horn
7. Close of anti-government protester Bani Hatzir with pot and spoons
8. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Bani Hatzir, anti-government protester:
"This protest is for democracy in Israel, there is nothing more simple than that, the most basic thing we want is three authorities and not one less."
9. Mid of government supporter with Likud (National Liberal Movement party) flag arguing with police officer
10. Mid of government supporters chanting
11. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Eli Malka, government supporter:
"I came to show my support to the Prime Minister (Netanyahu). I want my voice to be heard, we support the reform we support the changes and we came to express our position with love and joy."
12. Mid of woman with Likud flag
13. Various of horse-mounted police separating rival protesters
14. Wide of Likud supporters
15. Wide of horse-mounted police
16. Mid of anti-government protester with sign reading (English): "No to dictatorship"
STORYLINE:
Rival protesters faced-off in the Israeli town of Hader late Wednesday as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attended Mimouna celebrations, an event marked by Moroccan Jews a day after Jewish Passover.

The two blocs chanted and traded insults as mounted police separated them.

Eli Malka, a government supporter that attended the protest, said they wanted their reform support to be heard.

"We came to express our position with love and joy," Malka said.

Anti-government protester Bani Hatzir said the protest was "for democracy."

"The most basic thing we want is three authorities and not one less," Hatzir added.

Mimouna is a festive rite established among Jews of Moroccan origin, in which they mark the end of Passover with food they abstained from during the week-long holiday, such as leavened food.

Tensions have been high among Israelis protesting a planned judicial overhaul by Netanyahu's right-wing government.

Netanyahu put his contentious judicial overhaul plan on hold for the Jewish holidays but has vowed to pass the package through parliament â€œone way or another.â€

He has come up against a wall of opposition he has never before faced in a three-decade political career.

For three months, hundreds of thousands of people have repeatedly taken to the streets week after week to demonstrate against the plan, crippling major highways and city streets as they accused him of pushing the country toward dictatorship.

AP Video shot by: Eyal Warshawsky

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