Protests against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu escalated, while opposition leader Yair Lapid said that PM was in hysteria because of the popular protests.
In turn, Netanyahu accused the media of staging demonstrations against him, describing the protests as an attempt to crush democracy.
On the other hand, an Israeli court has ordered Yair, the son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop harassing a number of people who contribute to organizing anti-father protests, after he posted their addresses on Twitter.
The court also ordered Netanyahu Jr., to delete the tweet and "refrain from harassing" the persons concerned for a period of six months, according to a decision issued by the Israeli Magistrate Court.
The court considered that the invitation of Yair Netanyahu, his father's supporters, to go to the homes of the leaders of the protests and demonstrations, which are demanding Netanyahu to resign, and to publish their personal details and their whereabouts through the media, are under the heading of incitement to attack and spread chaos in the country.
In response to the decision, Yair Netanyahu, 29, said the court had "completely ignored" the evidence presented to defend him, including threats, which he indicated he had received from protest leaders.
The decision came in the wake of a demonstration, which was described by the Israeli media as the largest against Netanyahu in a decade, in which about 10,000 people participated.
Thousands, especially in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, have demonstrated in recent weeks against the prime minister's handling of the COVID-19 crisis, and some have called for him to resign.
In remarks he made during the weekly meeting of the government on Sunday, the right-wing prime minister denounced the media, accusing it of "fueling" what he described as "violent demonstrations" rather than just covering it, and acknowledged that his government was in a hurry to reopen the economy.
Some of the demonstrators expressed their dissatisfaction with the way the government responded to the outbreak of the Corona pandemic, while others expressed their opposition to Netanyahu's leadership in general, pointing in particular to the corruption charges he faces.
More than 10,000 Israelis went out to demonstrate Saturday in what the Israeli media outlets said it is the largest demonstration against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since the start of the recent wave of protests.
Thousands of demonstrators gathered in Paris Square and the adjacent streets in central Jerusalem, as well as in front of Netanyahu's house, demanding the Prime Minister to resign, while the demonstrators accuse Netanyahu of corruption and mismanagement of the country's Coronavirus crisis.
Some other cities witnessed protest demonstrations, as hundreds participated in the protests in Tel Aviv and the police called on them to adhere to health instructions and avoid disturbing public order.
Three ministers in the Israeli government entered the quarantine against the background of the discovery that the Minister of Jerusalem Affairs and Heritage, Ravi Peretz, was infected with the new Coronavirus yesterday.
Yedioth Ahronoth, an Israeli daily newspaper, confirmed that this measure affects the Minister of Higher Education, Zeev Elkin, the Minister of Community Development and Promotion, Orly Levy, and the Minister of Religious Affairs Yaakov Avitan.
It was reported that the three ministers will enter the quarantine until August 9, after the epidemiological investigation conducted by the Ministry of Health revealed that they had been in contact with the injured minister. A number of the three ministers' advisers will also be forced to enter quarantine.
After midnight, the Israeli police began dispersing the demonstrators in Paris Square, and managed to evacuate the protesters and reopen the roads for the movement of cars. The police did not use water cannons to disperse the protesters, but they forced them out of the place.
The police confirmed the arrest of 8 people in Jerusalem, and several others in the various areas that witnessed the protests earlier.
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