The year began sporadically in Israel for the new cooperation government under Benjamin Netanyahuagainst the background of new outbreaks of violence between Israelis and Palestinians, but also anti-government demonstrations, as thousands of Israelis take to the streets every week expressing their opposition to the reforms being promoted by the new government in how Justice works.

As the news agency notes in its analysis, last weekend’s deadly attack on Israelis near a synagogue in Jerusalem ended one of the deadliest and bloodiest months in recent years in Israel and the West Bank. Bloomberg.

Outbreaks of violence in recent weeks have exacerbated the social unrest facing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government. Tens of thousands of Israelis are protesting the government’s plans to overhaul the judiciary, and analysts warn that the country’s economy is in danger.

And all this just a month after 73-year-old Netanyahu returned to the post of prime minister as head of a multi-party government that has been criticized as the most “extreme right” in decades in Israel.

In such an explosive context, the visit of the US Foreign Secretary begins today. Anthony Blinken in Israel.

It is noted that together with his colleague Eli Cohen, Nikos Dendias also meets in Jerusalem.

Blinken intends to hold a close meeting with Netanyahu and other members of Israel’s new right-wing government, as well as with members of the Palestinian Authority, which decided last week to end security cooperation with Israel in response to Israel’s previous military incursion into the West. Bank of Jenin, killing nine Palestinians.

US President Joe Biden was quick to reiterate the US “commitment” to Israel’s security after a Palestinian gunman killed seven Israelis outside a synagogue in Jerusalem over the weekend.

Benjamin Netanyahu himself (accused of corruption in past cases), for his part, stressed that Israel does not want a new escalation of tension in the country.

However, as reported in a related analysis by Bloomberg, the policies promoted by Israel’s new cooperation government in favor of expanding Jewish settlements in the West Bank, in favor of loosening the rules for the participation of Israeli security forces and reforming the justice system, make it extremely difficult to restore calm, especially when they come from a government that includes far-right, ultra-Orthodox politicians.

According to Bloomberg