So really 10,000 to 50,000. Drone video of the crowd can be seen at the link, so you can draw your own conclusions, dear Reader.
[IsraelTimes] Rallies much larger than in recent weeks; opposition leaders warn of national strike if gov’t defies High Court; ex-hostage says she felt abandoned when fighting resumed last time Well over 100,000 Israelis attended protests in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and dozens of other cities across Israel on Saturday night, as anger over the government’s resumption of fighting in Gazoo
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and the planned removal of the country’s top gatekeepers drew larger crowds than those amassed at recent weekend rallies.
At Tel Aviv’s Habima Square, tens of thousands filled the plaza and spilled out into the surrounding streets for the weekly anti-government demonstration — a marked increase from previous weekends when roughly half of the square remained empty.
The surge in attendance was sparked by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bid to fire Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar and Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara and assert greater control over the levers of power.
The rally at Habima Square preceded a second demonstration at the nearby Hostages Square — with thousands marching from one protest to the other — where the public answered a call from the Hostages and Missing Families Forum for a "rage rally" after the fragile two-month ceasefire in the Gaza Strip shattered earlier this week when Israel launched a large-scale aerial offensive followed by a renewed ground campaign.
At Habima Square, the plaza turned into a sea of Israeli flags interspersed with the banners and flags of center-left opposition parties Yesh Atid and the Democrats
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(Thomas) Nastyto the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
, whose respective heads Yair Lapid and Yair Golan both addressed the teeming crowd.
Over 1,500 faculty members at universities across the country have joined a planned academic strike slated to take place on Sunday in what will likely lead to major class disruptions. The faculty members are receiving support from just about all of the country’s main universities.
"If we can organize a tax revolt, we will organize a tax revolt. We will not be accomplices in the destruction of democracy," Lapid said at the Saturday rally.
These people are vile, willing to undermine the safety of the nation in a time of war for their selfish political purposes. Nor do I forgive the Times of Israel, which is choosing to emphasize the anti-Bibiness if it all in their articles on the subject.
His comments echoed sentiments expressed by both the Israel Business Forum and the Histadrut labor union on Friday, which warned that they won’t sit idly by if the government defies the High Court.RALLIES FOR THE HOSTAGES
As the protest in Habima Square drew to an end, organizers asked participants to join a march to a rally in solidarity with the hostages at the nearby Begin Gate where attendees would merge with those coming from the rally across the street at Hostages Square.
Ahead of the Hostages Square rally, the relatives of several of the Gaza captives delivered a weekly statement to the press, slamming Netanyahu for not prioritizing the return of their loved ones over the effort to dismantle Hamas’s military and governing capabilities.
The protest was the first of the weekly Saturday night demonstrations since Netanyahu ordered the resumption of fighting in Gaza overnight Monday-Tuesday and vowed that future ceasefire negotiations would only take place under fire after Hamas rejected Israel’s proposals to extend phase one of the truce rather than proceed to the second phase.
Addressing the masses at Hostages Square for the first time was also former hostage Doron Steinbrecher, who was one of the first to be released during the recent two-month ceasefire.
She told the crowd that she feels “anger toward those who think it’s okay to go back to fighting” in Gaza rather than stick to the original terms of the ceasefire and hostage deal with Hamas.
“How are you not listening to us? How?” she asked of them. “The feeling there, after so much time, is that you’ve been abandoned. And that’s a pain that is impossible to put into words.”
Steinbrecher said that until her release in January, she used to dream about coming to Hostages Square.
“We knew there was a square. We knew there was a place where people came every Saturday and that there was a group of people who knew there were hostages and who didn’t carry on with life as usual,” she said.
“It gives you power, a lot of power,” Steinbrecher continued. “It even makes you forget for a few moments the fear that you’ll be forgotten.”
Demonstrations weren’t limited to Tel Aviv, either, with thousands taking to the streets from the north to the south of the country, including in Haifa — where some 5,000 were said to be in attendance — as well as in Beersheba and Jerusalem.
As the Jerusalem rally drew to a close, a few dozen protesters marched to Netanyahu’s Azza Street residence, clashing with police after breaking through crowd control barriers.
Two demonstrators were arrested and taken to the nearby police station for booking.
Earlier in the night, cops were filmed forcefully shoving marchers as they neared Paris Square, near Netanyahu’s official residence.
A police spokesman said that “some demonstrators violated public order by blocking the intersection, igniting flares, and creating a safety risk for participants and other road users.”
Back in Tel Aviv, at least three protesters were arrested after descending onto the Ayalon Highway and temporarily blocking traffic by lying down on the tarmac. They too were removed and traffic resumed after only a brief delay.