Police question protester who recites hostages’ names outside Knesset speaker’s home

Tel Aviv police have questioned a protester who has been reciting the names of hostages through a megaphone outside Likud MK Amir Ohana’s apartment complex in Tel Aviv.

Itzik Levy, a resident of nearby Givatayim, made a morning routine of calling out the names of the hostages still held captive in Gaza, outside Ohana’s home.

According to Channel 12, Levy was summoned by police yesterday after Ohana filed a complaint claiming he had harassed him and his partner, Alon Hadad.

Levy was questioned under caution on the suspicion that he infringed on Ohana’s privacy and violated a legal provision barring protests within 300 meters (984 feet) of an elected official’s home.

Levy claims this provision was a temporary order instated during previous protests, and does not apply in his situation.

Lawyers representing Levy, part of a network providing legal counsel to detained protesters, call the interrogation’s basis “puzzling” and contend that reading hostages’ names for four minutes does not constitute an invasion of privacy.

Police released Levy a number of hours later on condition that he refrain from contacting the couple for 30 days and stay at least 500 meters (1,640 feet) away from Hahaskala Boulevard, where Ohana lives, for 15 days.

Last week during Levy’s read-out one morning, Hadad went out on the couple’s balcony waving a Likud flag and flashing his middle finger at the Levy and other protesters.

In response, Ohana’s office said that Hadad’s hand gesture was “directed at a specific protester from the ‘Brothers in Arms’ movement who has been coming intentionally early every morning for several weeks, to wake up his children and the entire neighborhood’s children, using a megaphone.”

רביעי בבוקר,

קבוצה קטנה של שכנים בשכונת ביצרון מקריאה (כמדי בוקר) את שמות החטופים מתחת לביתו של אמיר אוחנה.

רק שאז קורה משהו בלתי נתפס. ממרפסת ביתו של יו״ר הכנסת יוצא אדם עם דגל הליכוד ומניף אצבע משולשת למקריאים על רקע שמות החטופים.

כן כן. זה החומר האנושי! pic.twitter.com/rN36wMiua7

— Ran Harnevo (@harnevo) March 7, 2025