Tel Aviv gears up for anti-Netanyahu election rally
Major thoroughfares to be closed ahead of ‘Israel wants change’ demonstration in Rabin Square
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The Tel Aviv municipality announced road closures ahead of a rally Saturday evening in Rabin Square which calls for a change in government.
Major streets leading to the central plaza will be closed from 6 p.m. in the lead up to the 7:30 p.m. rally titled “Israel wants change.” Attendees were advised to arrive by public transportation.
Organizers expected a large turnout of “citizens who will paint Rabin Square with hundreds of thousands of hands and demand to change the government and to change the country’s priorities,” Ynet reported.
Among the speakers planning to address the rally were former Mossad chief Meir Dagan, who unleashed harsh criticism on the Netanyahu administration in an interview aired Friday, Michal Kastan Keidar, widow of an officer killed in last summer’s Operation Protective Edge, as well as other social activists.
The rally comes just a week and a half before the country goes to the polls on March 17.
The Times of Israel Community.