Hundreds of thousands of people rallied throughout Israel Saturday in the ninth straight weekend of protests against the government’s efforts to radically transform the judiciary, with some 160,000 estimated in Tel Aviv and tens of thousands more in dozens of locales. Police used horse-mounted cops and water cannons against the demonstrators as they sought to disperse them, with the Haaretz news site reporting that this had happened while the protesters were leaving the highway anyway and was not preceded by violence. How can you hurl a grenade into a crowd?”He added: “The commanding officer there behaved like a barbarian, a hooligan, throwing grenades at people who weren’t being violent… Police do this all the time, I was just filmed