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		</div><p>A night of intense protests against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government has seen dozens of Israeli demonstrators chain themselves together and briefly block the entrance to parliament.<br />
Police arrested four and broke up the gathering, which was called to protest against an upcoming vote to grant the government sweeping authority to bypass parliament in enacting measures to combat coronavirus.</p>
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<p>It came against the backdrop of a fresh outpouring of discontent with Netanyahu. Protests outside his residence have become a weekly occurrence, with police increasingly taking harsher measures against demonstrators. Last month, they arrested a retired air force general, setting off an uproar.</p>
<p>The protests have since drawn a younger crowd and have grown more defiant. In the past week, thousands have participated in some of the largest demonstrations in nearly a decade against the long-time prime minister, as public discontent bubbles over.</p>
<p>Netanyahu has come under growing criticism for holding office while on trial for corruption, pushing for seemingly anti-democratic measures under the guise of combating the virus and mismanaging the country’s deepening economic crisis.</p>
<p>On Tuesday night, a large coalition of protest groups combined to march through the streets of Jerusalem from Netanyahu’s official residence to the Knesset, Israel’s parliament. They beat drums, banged on pots and blared on trumpets while calling for the prime minister’s resignation and holding banners reading “the Israeli spring is here”.</p>
<p>Towards the end, a young women climbed on to a mounted candelabra, the national symbol, and stripped off her shirt in protest.</p>
<figure id="attachment_159219" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-159219" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/CB1084E6-04D7-4457-AA3B-E848C8F38DB5.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="400" class="size-full wp-image-159219" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-159219" class="wp-caption-text">Police confront demonstrators</figcaption></figure>
<p>Police said they arrested 34 people involved in the disturbances, deploying a heavy hand in the arrests.<br />
The gathering also drew restaurant owners and celebrity chefs, frustrated by the government’s inconsistent reopening policies for businesses.</p>
<p>Netanyahu has seen his popularity plummet in recent weeks as his corruption trial has got under way, and as his bloated, “emergency” coalition government — formed specifically to handle the crisis — has fumbled managing the pandemic.</p>
<p>The prime minister is on trial for a series of cases in which he allegedly received lavish gifts from billionaire friends and traded regulatory favours with media moguls for more favourable coverage of himself and his family.</p>
<p>He has denied any wrongdoing, accusing the media and law enforcement of a witch hunt to oust him from office, and has refused to step down.</p>
<figure id="attachment_159220" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-159220" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/C9A3F64C-1ED1-4495-965E-0343EE0CD321.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="400" class="size-full wp-image-159220" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-159220" class="wp-caption-text">Israeli police use water cannon to disperse protesters</figcaption></figure>
<p>Israel received praise for its early handling of the coronavirus crisis and imposing tight movement restrictions, but since reopening the economy in May, new cases have spiked and unemployment remains over 20%, up from 3.9% before the pandemic.</p>
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