Israel is in the midst of a major crisis and is going through a dramatic period in its history. The country's government, headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has tried to push through the Israeli Knesset several bills that fundamentally change the balance of power between the various branches of government in Israel, significantly weakening the country's Supreme Court and giving almost unlimited powers to the ruling coalition. This law met with strong opposition.

Hundreds of thousands of Israelis took to the streets to protest across the country against a plan to neutralize the judiciary and weaken core liberal democratic values. Last weekend, according to the Israeli press, 200,000 people protested in Tel Aviv alone. Marina Beregovskaya, a resident of Jerusalem, Marina Chertkova, was asked to tell about the nature of the conflict and the situation in the country by the correspondent of Radio Megapolis Toronto.