As pro-Netanyahu rally set to begin, protesters gather outside

Backers of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are readying for a rally in support of the Likud leader in Airport City scheduled to begin soon.

The event is officially scheduled as a pre-holiday toast, but is expected to be much like an earlier gathering in support of Netanyahu, beset by legal troubles, during which he and others railed against the media in a Trump-style mass rally.

Read Raoul Wootliff’s account of being attacked at the first rally here. 

Outside the convention hall, at least two groups of protesters are holding their own rallies against the government for failing to act on their causes.

In one group, some 15 handicapped people are protesting benefit cuts, as they have been doing by blocking roads for several months.

According to the Maariv news site, coalition whip David Bitan, one the rally’s organizers, refuses to speak to them.

Also outside the hall are several dozen settlers evacuated from the Migron outpost some five years ago, saying the prime minister has refused to make good on his promise to build a neighborhood of permanent housing for them.

“We hope the prime minister, who promised last week that there should be only building and not destruction, will keep to his promise because promises need to be kept.”