Over the past weekend, Israel saw what may have been the biggest protests in the country's history.

The protests were over judicial reforms.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government wants to be able to veto court rules.

We see a process where the rights of the people will be over time consumed by this bureaucratic government.

On Sunday, the Prime Minister's own defense minister said,

Hey, maybe we should take a minute, call a timeout. Netanyahu fired him.

That is when things really sparked and took off and have led to a series of actions.

A general strike, the closing of the airports, many unions speaking out and mass demonstrations across the country protesting the behavior of this Prime Minister.

The Israeli is really conflict, coming up on today's explained.

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Today's explain.

Sean Ramisfer, I'm here with Alison Kaplan Summer, correspondent for Haaretz, based in Ranaana, Israel.

These size protests is really unprecedented.

There's never been such a huge outcry against any actions by the Prime Minister.

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