Israeli doctors declared a strike and more army reservists have asked to halt service in a public backlash over the hard-right government's ratification of the first stage of a judicial overhaul that critics say endangers democracy
Medics strike, all-black ads cover newspapersAbsent reservists could damage military readiness -officerJERUSALEM, July 25 - Israeli doctors declared a strike on Tuesday and more army reservists have asked to halt service in a public backlash over the hard-right government's ratification of the first stage of aWith long-serving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu facing his gravest, Israel's military took its first known internal disciplinary action over the protests.
The military spokesman gave no further details on the number of requests to abstain from volunteer service. Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, in comments to Army Radio, said the military was combat-ready even though reservists wanted to "put a gun to the head of the government". However, the Tel Aviv Regional Labour Court ordered the doctors to return to work, backing a government injunction request, a copy of the ruling seen by Reuters showed."Tomorrow the physicians will go back to work, but I can say that thousands of them are not going to be silent, because there is a strong feeling...that we cannot work as physicians when Israel is no more a democratic state," said Hagai Levine, chairman of the Israeli Association of Public Health Physicians.
First elected to top office in 1996 and now in his sixth term, Netanyahu, 73, has cast the judicial overhaul as a redressing of balance among branches of government.
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