Danny Elgarat, hostage Itzik Elgarat’s brother, performed the Jewish mourning ritual for the six slain hostages at the Tel Aviv rally, tearing his shirt open and crying, “Blessed is the true Judge” six times.
He accuses Aryeh Deri, leader of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, of reneging on his religious duties by partaking in the “death cabinet” that has failed to bring the hostages home.
As some protesters clash with police after the protest ends, cops are prepared with trucks and mounted officers to intercept the protesters, some of whom climb the trucks to great applause.
“Where were you in Sde Teiman,” the protesters yell, referring to police’s failure to arrest members of a rightwing mob that stormed the southern detention facility on July 29, after several soldiers were arrested there for allegedly abusing a Palestinian inmate.
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