Evening Edition: Israel's PM Netanyahu Pauses On Judicial Reform

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🗓️ 27 March 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced today that he will be suspending his judicial reform plan. The decision comes after a weekend of widespread demonstrations by thousands of protestors after Netanyahu fired Israel's Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who opposed the proposed reform. FOX's Eben Brown spoke with Yonat Friling, FOX Producer in Jerusalem, about both decisions by Netanyahu and whether or not this will calm the civil strife or worsen it. Click Here To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Abby Hornacek, and I'm Jessica Tarlov. This is the Fox News rundown.
0:08.3	Monday, March 27, 2023, I'm Evan Brown. Will Israel's violent protests be calmed now that
0:16.2	Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agrees to hold off with controversial reforms to the nation's
0:22.0	Supreme Court? Israelis have seen their streets burn in opposition. Because they say that
0:28.7	he's probably going to try the same things over and over again within a month. And so many of
0:34.7	the organizations of the protests have called to continue with the protests. This is the Fox News
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1:27.8	His own trusted defense minister for the act of criticizing him publicly as a step too far and
1:34.5	undemocratic. Though there are those who believe the reforms are needed. Others say the court
1:40.5	is the only backstop against a right wing. I'll be at elected government. It was all over the country
1:47.0	in the past 12 weeks. We have seen organized demonstrations against the proposed judicial
1:53.6	overhaul by the Netanyahu government. But the demonstrations over a night were spontaneous.
2:00.9	You're not frilling is our producer at our Fox News Bureau in Jerusalem. They followed
2:06.7	a statement by Netanyahu on Sunday night. Here it's the beginning of the working week.
2:12.6	That he is firing the defense minister you have gallant. What the night before urged Netanyahu
2:21.6	to help the legislation process of the proposed judicial reform or overhaul depends on which side
2:28.6	you are. And he surprised Netanyahu. Netanyahu was in London at the time on his way to the airport
2:38.6	back to Israel. And I think no one likes surprises. Definitely not this kind of surprises and definitely
2:46.1	not Prime Minister Netanyahu. So when he came back he announced that he's going to fire him.
2:53.1	They haven't received the letter. I just spoke to them a short while ago. And at the end of this
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