Several hundred demonstrators in Tel Aviv at Tuesday night’s protest calling for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ouster have begun marching down Rothschild Boulevard. In the past, police have often refused to allow marches without prior approval, which they say are illegal.
Omer Keren, 28, decided to come to the protests tonight for the first time.
“I feel like we’ve become indifferent, apathetic. I’ve felt this way for years. I wouldn’t do anything except for vote,” Keren says.
Protesters marching in Tel Aviv on October 6, 2020. (Aaron Boxerman/Times of Israel)
“When you see the behavior of a Prime Minister who’s been indicted, and the people in his court — like Miki Zohar and Osnat Mark — it’s just not healthy for us as a country,” he says.
Keren says that the fact that the coronavirus restrictions on demonstrations had brought the protests to Tel Aviv also play a role in his decision to show up.
— Aaron Boxerman
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