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Saturday, June 14, 2025
Finance Ministry security guard tells demonstrators they can’t come into building to shelter when sirens go off
Sam Sokol is the Times of Israel's political correspondent. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
Security guards at the Finance Ministry tell demonstrators staying at a protest tent outside the building that they are not allowed to enter to take shelter when sirens go off due to incoming missile fire from Iran.
In a video exchange posted on X by Channel 13’s Raviv Drucker, one of the protesters can be heard arguing with a security guard through an intercom, telling him that under the law members of the public must be allowed in when an air raid alert goes off — and claiming that he and his compatriots had received prior permission to do so.
“There’s going to be missiles soon, we’re on the street,” the protester says.
The guard replies that only ministry employees may enter, prompting the man to counter that the guard was “endangering my life.”
“Here comes the missile above me, I see it,” the protester says.
No sirens can be heard during the exchange.
כשיש אזעקה, האנשים במאהל המחאה שהקים יעקב גודו, אבא של טום גודו ז"ל, מבקשים מהמאבטחים של משרד האוצר להיכנס למרחב המוגן שבפנים. המאבטחים מסרבים (!) ואומרים שישכבו על המדרכה עם הראש בין הידיים. איזה גועל. pic.twitter.com/XKWGVdHYXZ
— Raviv Drucker (@RavivDrucker) June 14, 2025
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