Hundreds of people gather in the center of town in Jerusalem for a pro-tolerance protest, organized by Tag Meir.
MKs, including Nitzan Horowitz and Isaac Herzog, are in attendance.
The event is “a dam against hatred,” Herzog says.
“We will not let the forces of darkness overtake our life,” he adds.
Rabbi Benny Lau, a human rights activist, reads Psalms and asks the crowd not to applaud out of respect for the teenagers.
“No to Violence! No to Racism! No to Revenge! That is NOT the Jewish way,” the organization posts on its Facebook description of the event.
The demonstration comes a day after far-right activists march through the capital calling for revenge and chanting anti-Arab slogans.
A Tag Meir rally in Jerusalem on July 2, 2014 (photo credit: Matti Friedman)
Mitch Ginsburg contributed to this report.
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