Israeli police clear protesters blocking main road in Tel Aviv

Protesters gathered in Tel Aviv on Monday in an attempt to raise pressure against the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to overhaul the judiciary — a plan that is facing unprecedented opposition. The overhaul, driven by Netanyahu, who is on trial for corruption, and his allies in Israel’s most rightwing government ever, has plunged Israel into one of its worst domestic crises. Israel’s largest trade union group launched a strike across a broad swath of sectors, joining a surging protest movement against the plan. Netanyahu has called on ’demonstrators in Jerusalem, on the right and the left, to behave responsibly and not to act violently’ Israel protests – live updates