Gun-toting, prayer-reciting protesters throng Jerusalem to back judicial overhaul

Large numbers march on Knesset in biggest rightwing protest in Israel in nearly two decades

More than 150,000 Israelis in favour of the government's divisive judicial overhaul have taken part in a demonstration outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, in the biggest rightwing protest in the country in nearly two decades.

Protesters from all over Israel, as well as settlers who travelled in buses from the occupied West Bank, chanted the people demand judicial reform" and danced and sang as the rally got under way at sunset on Thursday, sending a message before the beginning of the Knesset's summer session next week. Exact numbers were hard to verify, but Israeli media reported between 150,000 - 200,000 people took part.