About 1,000 people gather at Tel Aviv’s Habima Square to protest against the government.
“We are guided by the Jewish and Israeli values we were raised on, and we fight today because Ran Gvili is still in Gaza,” says the MC, Kalanit Sharon, head of the Pink Front performing arts protest group, referring to the last hostage in Gaza.
After the speech, the crowd sings the national anthem and listens to a speech by Ron Sharaf of the Brothers in Arms reservist protest group, which clashed this week with Education Minister Yoav Kisch after he declared the group’s activists would be banned from speaking in schools.
“You think they’ll stop us from speaking to students? They’ll shut one door, and we’ll open 50,” he says.
“We’re fighting for the State of Israel’s identity and existence. Will we be a Jewish, democratic, strong and secure state, or a zealous messianic one?”
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