Several thousand people are at the weekly anti-government demonstration at Tel Aviv’s Habima Square, a marked increase over previous weekends.
While protesters in previous weeks took over roughly half of Habima Square, this week they appear to fill the plaza.
The spike in participation comes amid Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bid to fire Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar and Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, and Israel’s resumption of hostilities in Gaza, which ended the weeks-long ceasefire.
A large screen mounted on a stage reads, “Stopping the dictatorship mania.”
Anti-government protesters rally at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, March 22, 2025. (Amir Goldstein / Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)
Protesters chant: “Netanyahu is an abandoner, Netanyahu isn’t competent!”
The crowd is awash in Israeli flags, and some flags and banners of center-left opposition parties Yesh Atid and The Democrats, whose respective heads Yair Lapid and Yair Golan are set to speak.
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