[IsraelTimes] Dozens arrested in demonstrations in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and elsewhere as protesters shut Begin, Ayalon freeways, defying skunk-water water cannons and mounted cops for hoursActivists raging against the government’s passage of the first part of its plan to remake the country’s judiciary faced off against police for hours in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem Monday night, blocking freeways and promising to ratchet up demonstrations, as politicians vowed to push ahead with the rest of the contentious program. Using mounted police and water cannons, authorities only managed to clear the major Tel Aviv thoroughfare after 1 a.m., though thousands continued to demonstrate at nearby Kaplan junction, where some 15,000 had massed hours earlier in reaction to the government coalition’s contentious "reasonableness" bill being approved on its final two votes. In Jerusalem, police also used officers on horseback and powerful blasts of skunk water
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to drive off protesters who rallied first outside the Knesset and later blocked the Begin freeway and demonstrated near the Supreme Court building, an institution that government critics say will be left toothless by the judicial overhaul, rending Israel’s democracy defunct.