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The protests in Israel are not really against judicial reform. They are anti-Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu demonstrations.

Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.
Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.

The anti-judicial reform demonstrations are not really demonstrations against judicial reform. They are really anti-Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu demonstrations. And they’ve been organized and directed by those who can’t accept the results of Israel’s last election.

If you are interested in knowing what the problem is with the Israeli Supreme Court system (and there is one!), I drew this simple cartoon to allow Mr. Shuldig to explain it to you.

And if you want to get Bibi out of office, we have this system here in Israel. It’s called voting.

Political cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., made aliyah to Israel in 1971 and began drawing “Dry Bones” in January 1973. The internationally syndicated, award-winning cartoons ran in The Jerusalem Post for 50 years. They were reprinted in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, TIME and other mainstream media publications. The “Dry Bones” story has been covered by CBS, CNN and Forbes, among other outlets. He was a member of America’s National Cartoonists Society and the Israeli Cartoonists Society. Kirschen died at 87 on April 14, 2025.
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