Tel Aviv prepared for fresh strikes and protests Tuesday following a divisive parliamentary vote on a controversial judicial reform which sparked different opinions and drew criticism from allies abroad.
One person was arrested for allegedly harming demonstrators, with protest organizers saying he drove a car into people blocking a highway.
Officers used water cannon to disperse protesters on a major road through Tel Aviv.
Netanyahu failed to appease opponents with a televised address late Monday, in which he pledged to hold talks during the upcoming parliamentary recess.
The embattled premier showed signs of fatigue in the chamber, as he sat between his defense and justice ministers, just a day after unscheduled surgery to fit a pacemaker.
Deep divisions within his coalition and mass protests prompted the premier to temporarily halt the legislative process in March, but within weeks, politicians were blaming each other for the breakdown in negotiations.
On Monday, the opposition walked out of the chamber to boycott the vote, which passed with 64 votes in the 120-seat chamber.
Opposition chief Yair Lapid slammed Netanyahu’s “unprecedented performance of weakness”.
“ Netanyahu has become a puppet of messianic extremists,” he said, a reference to the premier’s far-right and ultra-Orthodox Jewish allies.
The political instability has raised alarm among allies abroad.
With AFP
