Thousands of Israelis on Saturday evening staged protests against the so-called supermarket law and premier Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption.
Recently Israel’s parliament the Knesset voted a bill into a law prohibiting the opening of businesses on Saturdays and religious events without prior approval from the Israeli minister of interior affairs.
The law was enacted to please the Haredi population who are extremist Jews rejecting modern secular culture and refusing to serve in the army and many of them do not recognize the authority of the modern state of Israel.
According to the Hebrew media thousands of Israelis rallied to protest the law outside the house of attorney general Avichai Mandelblit in Petah Tikva city near Tel Aviv.
In Ashdod city Yesh Atid (opposition party) chairman Yair Lapid also led a protest against enforcement of business closures on Shabbat (Saturdays).
Earlier on the same day Israeli war minister Avigdor Lieberman visited Ashdod city to display his support for the residents’ rejection of the law.
A massive protest against Netanyahu also took place on Rothschild street in Tel Aviv on Saturday. The participants called on the Israeli police to take swift steps to file indictments against Netanyahu and his wife Sarah over corruption scandals.
