Speakers at Democracy Square rally in Tel Aviv call for government’s ouster

Speakers are calling for the ouster of the government at Democracy Square in Tel Aviv.

The first speaker of the night is Noa Karmon Yair, a psychologist from the south who specializes in trauma and has been treating survivors of Hamas’s October 7 massacre, while also having been evacuated from her own home.

The next speakers are Ruby and Hagit Chen, the parents of fallen IDF soldier Itay Chen, whose body was taken to Gaza after he was killed by terrorists on October 7.

“How could it be that the country abandoned you and abandoned me?” Hagit Chen says through tears. “When will you bring me my child back?”

Ruby Chen, a US citizen, says he received a personal call from US President Joe Biden after being notified last month that his son was killed on October 7, but was never contacted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Dr. Ronit Levine-Schnur, a law professor at Tel Aviv University and a founder of “The Day After the War Forum” — a group of academics seeking to promote a political plan to complement the war effort against Hamas — calls to strengthen diplomatic ties with the Arab states that assisted Israel in neutralizing last week’s attack from Iran.