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To understand what's happening in Israel this week, you could start by watching all the protest

videos. You'd see a sea of Israeli flags filling the streets, hear drums and kazooes.

I don't know. If my future is lost, I feel like I don't have any hope, any optimistic

in my body at the moment. Tens of thousands of people have been turning out to express

their outrage at the government's decision to quote unquote reform the country's Supreme Court.

The videos that interest Yair Rosenberg, though, they haven't come from the protesters.

They've been from inside the Israeli parliament itself.

Today, chaos in the Knesset, and these videos, they are almost as fiery as what's been happening

in the streets. Opposition lawmakers chanted shame and stormed out in protest ahead of the

vote on judicial reform. You can literally see the lawmakers arguing with each other on the floor

at any given point. You can see there's this iconic image of Benjamin Netanyahu

...