The police arrested on Thursday Shikma Bressler, a leader in the protests against Netanyahu‘s government plan to overhaul Israel‘s judiciary with a police commander initially saying she had been arrested on suspicion of incitement to block a road.

There is no such law on the books, however, and the police later said Bressler had encouraged protesters to block the road and would be interrogated on suspicion of hindering a police officer and disturbing the public order.