Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Tuesday, March 28th. I'm Nyla Boudou.

Here's what we're covering today. Another fatal school shooting, this time killing 6. Plus,

a drinking water scare in Philadelphia. But first, mass protests forced change in Israel.

That's our one big thing.

Is really Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday he'll delay his coalition's

planned judicial overhaul legislation to quote a void civil war.

That was after mass protests in Israel's largest trade union called for a strike,

all in opposition to Netanyahu's plan to weaken Israel's Supreme Court.

protests have been widespread for months. Axios' Barack Revee joins us from Tel Aviv with what's

next. Hi, Barack. Hi, Nyla. Was that civil war statement by Netanyahu hyperbole?

I don't think so, but it was odd. Taking into consideration the disentire crisis was of his own

making. He's not like this bystander or impartial monitor from the UN who's just looking at things.

He initiated this whole thing and within three months since his government was sworn in,

this judicial overhaul tarnished the Israeli economy, totally destabilized it, created an

unprecedented crisis within Israel's military and security services that led the minister

of defense himself to warn that this situation is a clear and immediate threat to the national

security, something that got him fired because of doing his job. And obviously produced

international criticism like, you know, I've never seen and I'm doing this for 18 years now.

So this was a crisis that Netanyahu produced almost on his own with the help from his far-right

partners. There were far-right groups calling for violence against the pro-democracy protesters

on Monday night. Did that happen? Unfortunately, there were several cases that were reported by

people mainly in Tel Aviv, but also in Jerusalem. People who were attacked by a gang by the name of

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