Israelis protest against legal overhaul plans for ninth week

Tens of thousands of Israelis protested in Tel Aviv (Tsafrir Abayov/AP)

Tens of thousands of Israelis demonstrated on Saturday against prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contentious plan to overhaul the country’s legal system, as the government pressed on with the proposed changes despite the mass opposition.

The plans were proposed in January, weeks after Netanyahu’s ultranationalist coalition, the most far-right government in the country’s history, was sworn in.