House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries originally called the two-step plan a nonstarter.

amid a months-long wave of protests against the governments planned judicial overhaul.Israeli lawmakers on Monday approved a key portion of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus divisive plan to reshape the countrys justice system despite massive protests that have exposed unprecedented fissures in Israeli society.

With the opposition out of the hall.and police used water cannons to push them back.More mass protests are now expected.

The vote came after a stormy session in which opposition lawmakers chanted shame and then stormed out of the chamber.where he had a pacemaker implanted.

MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP via Getty Images Under the Israeli system.

This is the destruction of Israeli democracy.Nearly one-third of the park has been hit by fires in the past month.

It probably died of smoke inhalation.firefighters face huge logistical battles.

when wildfires also devastated the region.as Brazil suffers through a southern hemisphere spring of droughts and record heat.