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Wednesday, August 6, 2025
From the Liveblog of
Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Ayalon Highway reopened to traffic after protesters blocked road in call to release hostages
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Activists block the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv, during a protest calling for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip and against the government, August 5, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
Ayalon Highway has reopened to traffic after it was blocked by dozens of protesters earlier this evening amid a demonstration against the government’s widely-reported plan to forgo negotiating a hostage deal in favor of occupying the Gaza Strip.
Smaller simultaneous protests cropped up elsewhere in the country as well, including in Rehovot, near the Weizmann Institute of Science.
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