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Thousands sat in protest of violence against women: "If they do not stop, we will stop"

Dozens of companies and organizations joined the fight against violence against women and allowed their workers to stop working during the day. As part of the protest, organized by a private group of women, there will be lectures for the striking facts and towards the evening there will be a large demonstration in Rabin Square. "The time has come to say enough, we will not put up with the violence."

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Maya Horodnitzano and Dana Yarkatzi

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Thousands of women from across the country sat down today (Sunday) from work at 12:00, in protest of the violence perpetrated against women. This is against the background of the 16-year-old rape in Eilat. The protest, entitled "Women's strike - women and girls are not no man's land", was organized by a private group of women, and so far it has been joined by dozens of bodies and companies in Israel such as Tel Aviv, IAI and Pelephone, who called on their employees to stop working for half an hour or more.

As part of the struggle, demonstrations will take place in the evening in dozens of cities and intersections throughout the country, with the main one taking place in Rabin Square in Tel Aviv at 20:00. Simultaneously with the shutdowns and demonstrations, several bodies will hold seminars and lectures on violence against women, some of which will be streamed on the Facebook page of the Women's Lobby in Tel Aviv.

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According to Moran Zer Katzenstein, the initiator of the women's protest, "the time has come to say enough. And if they do not stop, we will stop. Violence against women across sectors, right and left, is violence that can no longer be tolerated. I call on you, women and men of Israel, to stop. "Demonstrate, make your voice heard."

Another body that has expressed support for the struggle is the Open University. The educational center called on its students to arrive at the campus plaza at 12:00 in red shirts, signs and masks, and to conduct the demonstration subject to Ministry of Health guidelines.

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During Shabbat, demonstrations took place in several centers around the country, after hundreds of people demonstrated in Tel Aviv and Haifa on Thursday. About a hundred of them came to Habima Square in Tel Aviv, chanting "struggling, struggling, against violence against women" and "the government is indifferent to violence against women."

The demonstrators demanded "a sensitive and effective investigation and no more declarations of lack of public interest and investigations closed for lack of evidence." They also demanded that "a budget be transferred to the program in the fight against violence against women that was promised in 2017," as well as "a justice system whose main focus is victims of crime and not the good name of the perpetrators."

The event that triggered the recent protest movements and demonstrations is the rape of a 16-year-old girl at a hotel in Eilat. According to the suspicion, over ten men are involved in the rape and so far four have been arrested. "The investigation team was able to assess the number of suspects involved in the incident, who are currently working to identify them and their arrests are expected in the coming days," the police said after assessing the situation of the Southern District Commander, Superintendent Yoram Sofer. To investigate the case.

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