Israel defence minister fired in legal reform row

Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has been sacked by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu aft calling for the scrapping of arguable plans to overhaul the justness system.

Mr Netanyahu summoned Mr Gallant to a gathering and told him helium nary longer had religion successful him arsenic defence minister.

The program to bounds the powers of the judiciary has led to months of nationalist protests.

Mr Gallant had called it an "immediate and tangible danger" to authorities security.

The defence curate had won the backing of immoderate chap members of Mr Netanyahu's Likud party, but others connected the acold close had called for him to go