Yonatan Shamriz speaking at the anti-government protest in Tel Aviv, May 4, 2024. (Lior Segev)
Speakers at the anti-government protest at Democracy Square in Tel Aviv call for early elections to be held.
“We need a different government, a government that isn’t busy all day inciting and dividing,” say Uri and Bar Hefetz, a father and daughter from Nirim who have been displaced from their homes since October 7. “We want to go home, and to go home, this whole government needs to go now.”
“Over the past 20 years, we’ve gotten used to being a piece in a political game, we got used to rockets as just a drizzle,” says Yonatan Shamriz, whose brother Alon was a hostage accidentally killed by the IDF. “There are those who think our struggle will end when early elections are called, but I’m telling you that’s the day another struggle will begin. It will be a struggle for a new and moral leadership that will represent us and not itself.”
As the demonstration ends, protesters walk over to Begin Street to join the hostage families protest.
An aerial view of the anti-government protest at Democracy Square in Tel Aviv, May 4, 2024. (Nadav Eliyahu)
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