7 October 2023, 9:02 am
Organizers of protests against the judicial overhaul scheduled for Saturday night announce the cancellation of the weekly demonstrations.
“We stand with the residents of Israel and give full support to the IDF and the security forces,” the protest organizers say in a statement.
Some 10,000 Israel Defense Forces reservists will suspend their volunteer reserve duty in protest of the government’s plans to overhaul the judicial system, a large protest group announced Saturday evening.
At a press conference in Herzliya, leaders of Brothers in Arms announced the move, the latest to send shockwaves through the Israel Defense Forces, which is struggling to stem a growing flood of reserve troops dropping out of volunteer duty to protest the overhaul, as defense officials warn the phenomenon could affect national preparedness.
(27.06.2022)
„Today, it is already clear to everyone who really controls this state and leads it to destruction. Levin may have hijacked the country, but we will free the state from his hands,“ protest organizers declared in a statement.
Who are we?
Brothers and Sisters in Arms is comprised of loyal and concerned reserve soldiers and officers from all units, divisions and corps of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), including the Army, the Air Force, and the Navy. Over the years, we have all shouldered the heavy burden of safeguarding the State of Israel with a sense of mission and honor. We have carried out the tasks assigned to us under right-wing, centrist and left-wing governments without any difference or reservation. We have always stepped up to serve, support, build, protect, fight for, and even risk our lives for the sake of a Jewish and democratic State of Israel. An Israel that advocates the principles of equality, freedom and unity in accordance with the spirit of our Declaration of Independence, ensured by maintaining separation of powers and an independent judiciary.
Hundreds of protesters against the far-right government’s planned judicial overhaul gathered outside a Petah Tikva police station Monday evening, after an activist was detained at home and questioned over alleged plans to carry out violent activities. Following a call from the reservists’ organization Brothers and Sisters in Arms for activists to protest at the police station, hundreds of protesters gathered outside the police station.
Though the activist, Itzik Medina, was released after a short time, flag-waving and vuvuzela-blaring protesters continued to demonstrate through the city, warning that the arrest was another step toward an Israeli dictatorship and blocked several streets. “What happened tonight could happen to all of us,” Medina said to the crowd assembled outside the station, shortly after his release. “They came to my home and they simply picked me up.”