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member of the vanderbilt university faculty. jon, great to see you. he s not a trotsky-ite. huge reveal. turning to israel. despite hundreds of thousands of people engaged in mass protests across the country and in jerusalem specifically, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu successfully passed an overhaul of the country s supreme court yesterday. nbc news foreign correspondent raf sanchez has the latest. reporter: the streets of israel erupting into chaos. protesters blocking major roads, chaining themselves together in front of the country s parliament. a last-ditch effort by opponents of the government s controversial plan to weaken the supreme court. but it wasn t enough. israeli police are using water cannons to clear the roads. they re tracking down hard, but the protesters say they ll stay on the streets. three injuries with a car
reporter: overnight, we saw scenes of absolute chaos here in tel aviv and on the streets of jerusalem in the hours after that divisive piece of legislation passed through the israeli parliament, the knesset, tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets once again blocking major intersections, blocking highways. police at one point using water cannon to try to dislodge them. i want to show you one video from central israel late last night where you can see this is from the highway in central israel a car ramming into those protesters who were blocking the road there. now, police say three people were injured, fortunately none of them seriously in that incident. and the driver has been arrested, but that shows you just how high the tensions are. the protests themselves have died down today. but as you mentioned, chris, what started as a political crisis is now potentially endanger of becoming an economic crisis for israel. the stock market is down.
military operation there is over but violence has spread to gaza and tel aviv. israeli forces say they have been conducting strikes in the gaza strip. they say all five rockets were intercepted, and it targeted weapon production sites for the palestinian militant group hamas. and the operation left at least 12 people dead and many more injured. israel says one of its soldiers was also ckilled. and at least three children were among those killed in jenin. the united nations is calling for an immediate end to the violence. hamas claims responsibility for car ramming and stabbing attack in tel aviv on tuesday which left at least eight people injured. nada bashir is tracking the developments. and we ve heard a warning that this is another pattern of violence that we have seen in the past and while israeli troops have indeed left jenin,