Police are preparing for the second ‘Day of Disruption’ by opponents of the government’s planned judicial reforms tomorrow (Thursday). About 3,000 police officers will be deployed in 130 locations across the country.
Ben Gurion Airport will be a focal point of the protests due to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s departure for a diplomatic visit to Italy tomorrow. Protestors plan to block the roads leading to the airport, and due to this the prime minister will arrive at the airport by helicopter and not by car.
During a situational assessment conducted by Police Commissioner Yaakov Shabtai, it was decided that any driver who deliberately causes traffic to be delayed in the area around Ben Gurion Airport and on the main highways will be fined NIS 500 and receive four points on their drivers license.

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir warned earlier Wednesday that blocking the roads leading to the airport as well as Israel’s main traffic arteries would cross a “red line.”
“I’m in favor of demonstrations and freedom of expression, but Ben Gurion Airport and the country’s main transportation arteries are out of bounds. There are people who need to get to the hospitals, and that’s a matter of life and death,” Ben-Gvir said.
“Today I am going to hold a situational assessment with the police and the command staff and make it clear unequivocally that my directive is to give as much leeway for freedom of expression as possible, but not at Ben Gurion Airport.” You have to remember that in the end we are the same people. I call on the opposition to behave responsibly. Shout and demonstrate, but leave the airport and public transportation arteries out of the protests,” he added.
The protest organizers responded that Ben-Gvir is “behaving like an internet commenter and not like a minister. We call on our brothers, the police officers of the Israel police, to allow the democratic and vibrant demonstrations tomorrow that will help stop the coup d’&eacutetat. If Ben-Gvir wants to be a TV star, let him go on reality shows and leave it to serious people to manage the security of the citizens of the state.”