The hysterical handwringing about judicial reform only feeds the anti-Israel monster that exists out there in the world, and creates self-fulfilling prophesies about Israel’s economic isolation.

"I'm here tonight protesting against the transition of Israel from a democracy to an autocracy," Dov Levenglick, 48, a software engineer told Reuters in Tel Aviv.

The former prime minister said that during his mediation, the Russian president dropped his vow to seek Ukraine's disarmament and Zelenskyy promised not to join NATO.

Ze'ev Raz had written that if Netanyahu's proposed judicial reforms lead him to “assume dictatorial powers" it was incumbent upon Israelis to kill him, but later walked it back.

The IDF said in a statement that the aircraft was downed before it could cross into Israel.