Israeli President Isaac Herzog said in a special address to the nation amid mass protests against the legal reform project that power cannot be paralyzed, The Times of Israel reports.

"No power can be paralyzed," Herzog said, calling on the Netanyahu government to "hear the cry of pain" from the protesters.

Herzog also warned that "the country is on the verge of constitutional and social collapse."

The first reading of part of Yariv Levin's legal reform, which has provoked weekly protests in the country by the thousands, is scheduled for this coming Monday.

Opponents of the reform and organizers of the protests called on all sympathizers to join the national strike, a call published on social media.