Israelis opposed to the planned judicial reform of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government turned out in force once more on Saturday, as protests entered their 25th week in a row.

Some 95,000 demonstrators took part in the main Tel Aviv rally. 

The Tel Aviv rally on Kaplan Street also saw the launch of the so-called "Kaplan Force," a body of protesters committed both to the principle of nonviolence and to escalation of resistance against the Netanyahu government.  

In the White City, banners were held with slogans such as "Israel is burning" and called on Netanyahu an "enemy of democracy." His government maintains that the reform of the judicial system aims to rebalance powers by reducing the prerogatives of the Supreme Court, which it considers to be politicized, in favor of parliament. However, the critics of the reform fear that it opens the way to an authoritarian drift.

At the end of March, Netanyahu announced a "pause" in the project to give dialogue a chance, but on June 18 he promised to advance work on the reform, without giving further details. This announcement came a few days after the suspension of the participation of the two main leaders of the Israeli opposition, Yair Lapid and Benny Gantz, in the talks.