This is on point.

I'm Megna Takrabadi.

In late July, Israel's parliament, the Knesset, passed the first part of Prime Minister Benjamin

Netanyahu's sweeping reform plan that aims to completely overhaul the nation's judiciary.

The reform limits the Israeli Supreme Court's power and effectively delivers a mighty tool

for far-right lawmakers to reshape Israeli society.

The measure passed, despite massive and historic protests.

In January, hundreds of thousands of Israelis flooded into the streets to oppose Netanyahu's

plan.

Eight months later, the weekly protests are still going on.

A lot of Israelis asking questions they haven't asked in the past about what democracy

really means, what are the policies that contradict democracy?

Dalia Shendlin is a public opinion researcher and a columnist for the Israeli newspaper

Haaretz.

She first joined us back in March of this year to provide analysis on what she sees as

the deep historic roots of Israel's current political crisis.

We connected with her again this week to better understand how the protest movement has evolved.

We don't know exactly how representative they are because nobody's going around with

proper sampling methods at the demonstrations trying to figure it out, but we do know from

survey research that over 20% of Israelis say they've participated in the demonstrations,

which is remarkable for public demonstrations, usually in most countries, we would see

somewhere in the very low, single percent, maybe three or four percent in total say they

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