On Saturday, Israel hosted one of the largest protests in the history of the country - hundreds of thousands took to the streets, reports the BBC.. People across the country come out to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's proposed judicial reform.. The rallies continue for the tenth week in a row.

According to Channel 12, about 145,000 people attended the rally in Tel Aviv, 50,000 in Haifa and 10,000 in Beersheba..

In Tel Aviv, tens of thousands of people waved banners and shouted slogans: " Demonstrators also blocked major streets and intersections in the northern city of Karmiel..

The government wants to have a decisive vote in the selection of judges and limit the ability of the Supreme Court to overturn directives or laws. According to the authorities, judicial reform will help restore the balance between the branches of government. Protesters believe it could undermine the independence of the judiciary and threaten Israeli democracy..

In practice, this means that the Supreme Court will no longer be able to block laws it deems unconstitutional..

According to Netanyahu's plan, any veto can be overridden by a simple parliamentary majority of 61 votes.. That is, the ruling coalition, which just has the majority of seats in the Knesset, will always be able to bypass the veto of the Supreme Court.

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The opposition believes that Netanyahu's reform seeks to get rid of criminal responsibility. He has been under investigation since 2017 on charges of fraud, corruption and breach of trust.. If found guilty, Netanyahu faces a total of up to 13 years in prison..

He denies the accusations, but throughout the years of the investigation he has not provided evidence of his innocence.. The only way for him to end this is a law to overrule the decisions of the Supreme Court by Parliament..

Netanyahu's plans to reform the judiciary have drawn strong opposition from groups on the left, which in turn has caused unrest among business leaders, widening the already deep political divisions in Israeli society..

Netanyahu calls opponents' refusal to accept the results of the latest elections, created by one of the most right-wing governments in Israeli history.

President Yitzhak Herzog denounced the project as "

The well-known Israeli military historian, professor at the Faculty of History at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Yuval Noah Harari, in his article “A moment of terrible insight”, analyzed the situation in Israel and predicted a possible scenario for the development of events. Harari hinted that he could leave Israel if the authorities do not stop destroying democracy.