The crowd seemed to largely comply with police orders to avoid making noise with drums and whistles at 9. 30pm. and avoid speakers and megaphones at 11 p. m.
Unlike last Saturday, police did not attempt to disperse the crowd at 11 a. m. when they tried to reopen the roads, but allowed protesters to sit silently in the square until midnight, although police continually asked the crowd to leave the passage transparent. Because the street opened to traffic, many protesters sat on the ground, blocking passage to the end.
Around 12:45 p. m. , police were forced to move the protesters, one by one, from Paris Square; However, unlike past events in which protesters were dragged aside without delay, officials may be noticed reasoning with the protesters and asking them to stand up. When it didn’t work, they took the protesters but refrained from shooting and pushing as they did during nighttime scatters during past demonstrations.
“In the army, they explain to us that you will have to be a non-public example for your subordinates. If he [Netanyahu] were in the army at this time, he would resign because it is intended to be so, ” said the 27-year-old. Former Dor Levy of the kibbutz Afikim in northern Israel.
It was the first time Levy had attended the Balfour event. He had to drive in search of something more “significant” after having participated in the past in a weekly demonstration at the Tzemach crossing, just south of the Sea of Galilee. occasion much less chaotic than I expected.
Overnight, interested protesters gathered in teams to protect their problems. In one corner, a women’s organization denounced sexual violence and rape. In another corner, Bratslav Hasidim piled up to cry for Uman, the Ukrainian pilgrimage site that will continue to be forbidden Rosh. And in some other corner, the young Ethiopians chanted against police brutality.
Three Ethiopian teenagers continually piled up a crowd around them and called the dead through the police. An organization of close officials watching the demonstration watched silently, listening.
While many of those taking part in the protests were lay and left-wing Israelis, one characteristic of Saturday night’s demonstration was the arrival of some two hundred members of Bratslav’s Hasidic sect who are disappointed that the government has banned their annual Rosh. Hashaná pilgrimage to visit the tomb of his venerable Rabbi Nachman in Ulaee, Ukraine. The organization had symptoms such as “Netanyahu opposes Rabbi Nachman” and “Netanyahu, you lost our vows. “
Shema, a 68-year-old Bratslav Hasid and self-proclaimed devotee on the right, said he was at the demonstration “by Ouman” and would continue to go to Paris Square until he was allowed the place of pilgrimage.
“It’s not fair, they let other people make a lot of choices and there are a lot of other people in Eilat, each and every hotel is crowded, also in Greece,” he told the Times of Israel.
Protesters in Bratslav were greeted with cheers from other protesters. In one corner, an organization of Bratslav Hasidim can be seen dancing with young lay people looking at their big black hairy hats, or shtreimels.
According to Ben Yitzhak, one component of what distinguishes Balfour’s protests from other demonstrations is his ability to gather protesters from other groups.
“We do things in combination and walk in combination and each one shouts each other’s slogans and when we are sitting in circles, everyone talks to each other. . . Tomy’s eyes, it’s very nice Thing. I think it’s been a long time since we’ve been to join [between people] and here you can see everyone get attached and . . . learn the reasons of others,” he said.
“Ultimately, we are fighting for a bigger society, a new society, and if we can do it here, I think there is a possibility that this will happen anyway at the national level. “