A senior member of Israel's coalition slammed the leftist protests on the Ayalon Highway, promising that that protests will not break the members of the coalition.
"If someone thinks that the actions last night will cause us to break, he is making a mistake," the source told Galei Zahal's Yuval Segev. "There will be no more prizes for anarchy. The legislation of the reasonableness clause will pass in the coming three weeks, in three readings, under their noses and despite them."
Fourteen people were injured in Wednesday night's violent protest, which saw a protester hit a police officer on the head with his helmet.
On Thursday morning, Nadav Galon, one of the leaders of the protest against the government, promised that the organizers of the protests intend to intensify their demonstrations and they do not think that the protests that took place last night - which included building bonfires on blocked roads - are excessive.
"Not only did we not exaggerate, you haven't seen anything yet," Galon claimed in an interview with Radio 103FM. "There is no responsible and functioning government in Israel. It's not that half the people think what I think, it's much more. Certainly in everything related to this dangerous gallop towards dictatorial laws."
According to him, "I am confident that after yesterday, the more the government advances - and I hope it will stop - but if it advances, you will see the same degrees of pressure and even more significant ones to stop the dictatorship. We are determined."
Also on Thursday, former Prime Minister Ehud Barak said, "The protest has risen a notch and will intensify next week if they reduce the reasonableness clause. The peak is still ahead of us. There will be ups and downs, but even the skeptics and some of the opponents understand today, this protest will not stop! This protest will win!"
Former Chief Justice Aharon Barak, who is responsible for the judicial activism of Israel's Supreme Court whch began in the 1980s, has said that the reasonableness clause may need changes and Supreme Court Justice Noam Solberg wrote the outline for that change that is being followed by the coalition.
Additional protests, this time near the homes of various government ministers and MKs, are planned for Thursday evening.