


Diary of a Local Protestor: In the Streets (Country Roads) to Save Israel’s Democracy with Rabbi Amy Klein
Thu, May 18
|SAJ Online event
Amy Klein is a graduate of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and former director of RRC's Israel Program. She has been living in Israel since 1997. She is a volunteer co-coordinator of the Upper Galilee-Golan-Sea of Galilee region for the current protest to save Israel’s democracy.


Time & Location
May 18, 2023, 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM
SAJ Online event
About the event
Since coming into power following the November 2022 elections, Israel's extreme right government has prepared a blitz of legislation that will turn Israel into a dictatorship. A people’s protest has arisen to protect Israel's (imperfect) democracy. The movement involves demonstrations at 150 local intersections “from Gome to Eilat,” central demonstrations in Tel Aviv and other major Israeli cities, and protests abroad, together with special “shut-down” days and targeting of parliament members with the potential to switch sides. The government's announcement of a "pause" in legislation was merely a pretense of willingness to negotiate and primarily to stall in order to build public support for the legislation. The morning after the "pause," the coalition brought to the speaker of the parliament's desk a law that will grant it a majority on the committee that appoints supreme court and lower court judges. That single law is enough to set in motion the…