Kaplan Force (

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: כוח קפלן) is a liberal

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based in

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, that is carrying out

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against Netanyahu's government. Kaplan Force define themselves as a civil force of a collection of liberal protest organizations in Israel. They've demonstrated at the

2023 Israeli judicial reform protests From January to October 2023, large-scale protests took place across Israel in response to the government's push for a 2023 Israeli judicial reform, wide-ranging judicial reform. The proposed reform aimed to give the government full control of ...

and now demonstrating at

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. Kaplan Force is named after

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which is where anti-government protests usually take place in Israel.

History

Establishment

Kaplan Force began their activities on June 25, 2023. The members of the organization announced "targeted actions against the laws of the dictatorship", referring to

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. At those moments, at the 25th demonstration, the members of the organization announced a blockade of several main highways in Israel, and a "siege" on

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, aiming to disrupt Israeli flight activity. Supporters of Netanyahu's government strongly opposed the organisation plans, saying it's "Anarchistic". On 3 July 2023, they were successful at blocking main highways, including Highway 1, Highway 20, and were successful at distrupting Ben Gurion Airport terminals.

Ami Eshed Protests

On the night of July 5, 2023, Ami Eshed, chief of the Tel Aviv District Police, announced his

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. Kaplan Force have said in response that he "was fired on political grounds by Ben Gvir, because he refused to break the protesters' bones". Later on that night, spontaneous demonstrations began in 40 different locations throughout Israel and Ayalon was blocked in both directions. Dozens were arrested and at least 3 were injured.

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