Israel braces for protests as far-right government targets courts - The Washington Post

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned to power in November elections after a year and a half on the sidelines, propelled by a bloc of once-fringe, far-right partners. In the two weeks since its inauguration, his government has embarked on a blitz of legislative initiatives, characterizing them as a "revision" to right the "imbalance among the three branches of government."

But critics say the measures amount to a "coup d'etat" that will destroy the nation's system of checks and balances to save Netanyahu from prosecution in three separate corruption cases and embolden his extremist religious partners to advance legislation supporting the expansion of Jewish settlement in the West Bank and the application of conservative Jewish law to public institutions...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/01/14/israel-protest-netanyahu-ben-gvir/