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Saturday, August 1, 2020
From the Liveblog of
Saturday, August 1, 2020
Thousands stay at Paris Square, some vow to keep attending future rallies
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThousands remain Jerusalem’s Paris Square, although some demonstrators have begun to trickle out.
Matan Cohen, a student at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba, says he decided to attend the protests for the first time this week with a group of fellow students. Cohen says the government’s coronavirus response has been “shameful.”
“If this is enough for me to come all the way from Beersheba, clearly things are bad, because I’m neither very active nor very political,” Cohen says.
Cohen says he has little hope for the protests’ success. But he says he will continue to come up from Beersheba “next Saturday and the Saturday after that.”
— Aaron Boxerman
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