Israel's protest movement takes judicial overhaul battle to media, courts
Israel’s main newspapers on Tuesday morning published blacked-out front pages in a coordinated campaign by the protest movement.
Following the adoption on Monday by the Knesset of the "reasonableness clause" canceling the Supreme Court’s oversight of the government’s decisions, Israel’s main newspapers on Tuesday morning published blacked-out front pages in a coordinated campaign by the protest movement.
Other pages featured all-page advertisements announcing "the death of Israel’s democracy" or "the end of Israel’s democracy."
The all-black pages included in small white letters at the bottom the inscription "a black day for Israeli democracy."
Israel’s major Hebrew daily newspapers all painted in black today. pic.twitter.com/KxC5h3g3FU
— Lidar Gravé-Lazi (@LidarGL) July 25, 2023
The front black pages were sponsored by the Israeli high-tech protest movement comprised of CEOs of leading Israeli high-tech companies, venture capital investors, self-employed entrepreneurs and regular hi-tech employees. And while these black pages were paid for, they still constituted a first for Israeli newspapers, especially since all the leading papers went along with it. These included Yedioth Ahronot, Israel Hayom, Haaretz, The Marker and Calcalist.
