Saturday’s demonstration is expected to be the last before the new national lockout measures are followed next week. It is not yet known how protests will be addressed under the new restrictions, possibly they would be limited. Saturday is Rosh Hashaná and manifestaciones. no planned, regardless of closure.
While opposition to Netanyahu and alleged government corruption remained in the midst of the protest, many protesters shouted out against the planned shutdown. increasing number of coronavirus infections.
Surrounded by dozens of protesters, one woman shouted, “Israel, Israel will close” in a megaphone.
Yoav Marks-Hazani, whose wife runs a place to eat in Jaffa, held a sign that said “You won’t close. “Marks-Hazani said so at the time he attended the protests.
“Our income has fallen by about 40% due to the crisis. . . We look into our savings, ask our parents. It’s a mess,” he says. This blockade has a political motivation and will solve anything. Even if it slows down the spread of the virus, it will prevent it. “
Others protested what they said a detachment from the difficulties of the public expressed through the Prime Minister, who was to leave for Washington on Sunday to celebrate the standardization agreements with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain as the rest of the country ready to be locked up. The prime minister’s initial plan to take a personal plane for himself and his circle of relatives, to protect them from the press and the rest of his entourage, had sparked enough public anger before the weekend that he put the concept aside on Friday. .
“Peace with Bahrain and peace with the emirates are of no interest to anyone here. We’re busy running everyday life and that’s what we’re interested in, not all kinds of nonsense outside,” said Boaz Tamir, 62, a Jerusalem resident.
Tamir picked up a sign with the image of a guy rummaging through a trash can and a text that read “Peace with Bahrain?”Wait, I discovered the schnitzel in the trash!
Organizers of the demonstration in Balfour for protests at the airport to “brake” Netanyahu’s flight on Sunday.
Performance artist Ze’ev Engelmayer, who made headlines last week after being arrested for dressing up in the frame dress of a character known as Shoshke, also provided at the event, while others also dressed in fake Shoshke dresses to show their support.
“A lot of other people identify with me. It’s fun. I feel like I’m going into a fight and there are other people by my side,” Engelmayer, dressed as Shoshke, told the Times of Israel.
Police said the prosecution of Engelmayer, who was part of the protests of recent weeks, may simply be a form of “sexual harassment opposed to the public,” a rate that does not appear to exist in Israeli law books.
Engelmayer said the police had not yet closed the case, releasing him hours after his arrest.
“Our policeman has opened a file for everything that doesn’t exist in the law. It’s absurd. I need it closed tomorrow. It drives me crazy,” he says.
Earlier on Saturday, protests took place at primary intersections and overpasses across the country, as they have been in recent weeks.
On the beach in the city of Caesarea, some 500 more people joined a weekly demonstration against Netanyahu in the open air of his personal home.
Police said before the demonstration in Jerusalem that, according to court rulings, the use of loudspeakers, drums and noisy tools would be prohibited after 9:30 p. m. to minimize inconvenience to local residents. At 11 a. m. , the use of speakers and speakers would also be limited.
Shortly after midnight, police began forging the street protesters and temporarily reopened traffic to the busy intersection.
“We will disperse until Bibi resigns,” the protesters chanted as they dragged them.
The commander of Jerusalem’s police operations, Alon Khalfon, said the protests were largely peaceful, but that some protesters “confronted the police” and attacked them.
Overall, the “exemplary” demonstration, Khalfon said.
He blamed the violent incidents of the three months of protests on a “handful” of protesters “who come every week. “
Protesters held normal demonstrations this summer opposed to Netanyahu in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and other parts of the country, with the prime minister’s main protest site being the capital.
On Friday, thousands of Israelis marched through central Jerusalem and piled up outdoors in Netanyahu’s apartment to protest against the prime minister over his accusation of corruption and management of the coronavirus pandemic.
While Friday’s “Kabbalat Shabbat” protests have become a weekly occasion that attracts several thousand people, adding up young families and children, this week is the first time protesters have been allowed through police to march in Jerusalem.
Friday’s demonstration attended through a number of former high-level army figures, as well as academia and arts, as well as former Israeli army personnel leader Dan Halutz, former Mossad leader Tamir Pardo, former Shin Bet Carmi Gillon leader – winning biochemist Ruth Arnon.
“We will walk not far from the Plos angelesce of the Angels Démocratie, formerly known as plos angelesce de Paris,” Amir Haskel, head of the Ein Matzav (No Way) group, told the Times of Israel. protesters of a los angelesrge banner in the plaza los angelesst week, unofficially renaming the site.
“We hope this will be a small step towards the ultimate goal, which is Netanyahu’s separation,” Haskel added.
He said what made this specific occasion exclusive was the presence of many other people “who have faithful many years of their lives to the country” in the camps, all of whom had come in combination with the sole purpose of overthrowing Netanyahu.
According to the organizers of the event, who distributed bracelets to count the number of participants, more than 6,000 people attended Friday’s event.
“Democracies don’t die in a day. . . we’re in the procedure and it’s time to wake up,” Haskel told the crowd from the front of the level among strong cheers. “Israeli democracy is dying and connected to a fanatic. “. “