During a demonstration in Rabin Square in Tel Aviv in protest of the violence against women, a performance was staged that attacked Prime Minister Netanyahu • The audience cheered and the organizers apologized

• A storm in a demonstration. "The rapist is the prime minister"

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  Joshua Joseph

Dozens of people gathered tonight (Sunday) in Rabin Square in Tel Aviv to protest against sexual violence against women, following the rape in Eilat. The organizers expected thousands of participants, many nearby streets were closed, but as mentioned few came.

His art performance was staged where the performer exclaimed: "The rapist is you, the rapist is the state, the rapist is the prime minister." Her remarks drew applause from the audience. The exhibitor, Jessica Sharon, is involved in plastic arts, and is taking part in the global struggle and is one of the founders of the Mei To movement in Argentina. After descending from the stage, the host of the event apologized, a kind of person for the things on behalf of the organizers. 

On screen next to the stage were screened many sentences in the context of sexual violence quoted from various publications, including: "The defendant may be the wolf, but the complainant is not Little Red Riding Hood", "The complainant's ugliness" - sentences said by judges in previous cases, it is not that she is drunk and dressed as a prostitute, it You who think like a rapist, "was written by" Alternative Builders "who were the producers of the event. 

Billy, a 30-year-old from Tel Aviv who came to the rally, told "Israel Today" that "the whole country should be here and not such a large number of people. I am shocked and there are deep problems in our society. I heard about the rape in Eilat and I felt that there was a disgraceful treatment of women, degrading punishment, and fundamentally poor education. "

Tzipi Brand of the Tel Aviv Municipality said: "This is not a political issue. The chief of staff of a prime minister photographs women under their skirts. "We are dealing all day with nonsense and ego. These are days of shame, shame, shame."

Daniel Agmon (28) who came to the demonstration told "Israel Today" that "the main thing that burns in me is the matter of education among fathers and society as well. All my life I have seen the social pressure from the youngest ages to disconnect yourself emotionally. The fact that everything is feminine is perceived as negative "It should be avoided and put in our heads and we should be the hard and strong man. This is unequivocally related to the case in Eilat. The rapists and the crowd, they were there and did nothing and saw a girl as a victim and did not arrest the man.

Moran Zer Katzenstein (38), one of the founders of the protest: "I have 3 sons and I have never been raped. But many of my friends are not as lucky as I am. It is pure luck no matter what you wore or said. I came here on behalf of dozens and hundreds of women who say quite enough. I do not represent any organization and this is a private protest because it is impossible to keep another raped woman and another man released with a blow on the hand. After hearing about the horrific rape in Eilat I felt I could not breathe and said I must do something. I realized with friends that our power is that we Women make up 51% of the citizens of the State of Israel, and we will not move on to this agenda.

If it does not stop we will stop! Today we returned at 12:00 from all sectors and companies. We shut down the economy and now in 30 hotspots across the country women have stopped being silent. We demand that you put us on the national agenda and we demand to tighten with the attackers, budgets for healthy education in every school. "Women are required in all areas of decision-making."