This is on point. I'm Meghnachakrabardi. It was the threat of civil war, not the sundering

of democratic norms that forced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's hand. For

now. On Monday night, Netanyahu spoke to the Israeli people, saying he would pause

his government's highly controversial efforts to overhaul the country's judiciary.

When there's an opportunity to avoid civil war through dialogue, I as Prime Minister

am taking a timeout for dialogue, Netanyahu said, quote, we insist on the need to bring

about the necessary corrections in the legal system. We have the opportunity to achieve

a broad consensus. This is a very worthy goal. End quote.

For the past three months, Israeli society has been profoundly divided. Wave after wave

of protests and demonstrations against Netanyahu's proposed reforms, drawing people

like Yinev Segal into the streets. On Sunday, Yinev was relaxing at home in Tel Aviv.

He just wrapped up a Zoom meeting with other activists.

On Saturday, Israeli Defense Minister Joav Galant, a member of Netanyahu's own Likud party,

spoke out against the judicial overhaul. The protest movement had spread to elite Israeli

army units that declared they would not serve if the judicial legislation passed. Well,

that prompted Galant to speak out. So Netanyahu fired him. The news spread across Israel

after midnight to people like Yinev Segal.

We got messages on WhatsApp from different groups of like, we go out now, like, go out

right now. And we took the motorbike and we arrived to Kaplan, the major place where

the demonstrations are in Tel Aviv. And we just took the violin highway. What we do in

every demonstration is playing drums and marching, like the most non-violent thing you can

do. Really like, no, we have a lot of energy with cream, we have microphones, but it's

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