Far-Right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir dares secular activists to try and disrupt a prayer service he and his Otzma Yehudit party leaders plan to hold in Tel Aviv on Thursday.
“I say to those anarchists that tried to eject worshipers on Yom Kippur — I and my friends from Otzma Yehudit are coming on Thursday to the same spot, let’s see you try and eject us,” Ben Gvir posts on X.
“I call on all of you, secular, religious, traditional, Ashkenazi, Sephardi, come — prayer belongs to all of us, it’s the Jewish state,” he says.
The activists that clashed with worshipers in Tel Aviv’s Dizengoff Square were not objecting to public prayer, but to the organizers setting up gender-segregation barriers in the event at a public space in defiance of a city order that was upheld by the Supreme Court.
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