Saturday, 24 April 2021(YJC)_ At least three people were detained by police on suspicion of public disorder outside Netanyahu residence.
Dozens of protesters began amassing outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s official Jerusalem residence on Saturday afternoon for the weekly demonstration against the premier, amid his ongoing trial for corruption charges.
At least three people were detained by police on suspicion of public disorder, according to multiple reports in the Hebrew-language press. Activists also accused the police of stopping and diverting a bus full of protesters at the entrance to the city earlier Saturday but the police said in a statement that they stopped two buses and detained two people while the others were allowed to proceed to the weekly protest.
The Crime Minister anti-Netanyahu protest group, one of the weekly organizers of the demonstrations, said in a statement that the premier was “entrenched at the Balfour residence” and “refusing to accept the election results.” The group called Netanyahu “a corrupt leader at the end of his journey who feeds on the chaos and, for him, the world could burn as long as he escapes justice.”
Israel held its fourth national elections in two years last month, which yielded further political deadlock. Netanyahu is currently charged with forming a coalition of at least 61 MKs, a task that is proving increasingly difficult as he battles right-wing, would-be allies. If he fails to form a government by May 4, President Reuven Rivlin will need to either task a second candidate with doing so or send the mandate back to the Knesset to directly choose a lawmaker to do the job.
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