Widespread civil unrest has forced Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to delay a planned major reform of the judiciary.
From turmoil, comes a truce - at least for now.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been forced to pause his plan to overhaul the country's judiciary.
Workers joined a general strike against the proposal, and hundreds of thousands of people - in a country of fewer than ten million - participated in public protests against it.
After months of protests, tensions came to a head when Mr Netanyahu sacked his Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant, for coming out against the proposal.
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