Eyes on a TV screen on a Tel Aviv street, Ossie struggles to speak.
"
It's a dream come true,
" cowardly the sixty-year-old who sees the right-wing Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu leave on Sunday, after 12 years in power.
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Walking her dog, she stopped on the terrace of a bar to watch the Secretary of Parliament live on television calling out the names of the deputies who voted for or against the "
government of change
".
The dozens of patrons of the bar where multicolored LGBT flags fly held their breath, until the result was announced: 60 for, 59 against.
Ossie she sat down.
“
I have goose bumps, I can't speak.
I just hope it will last, at least a year,
”she slips.
By winning the Knesset vote, the motley government led by ultra-right-hander Naftali Bennett puts an end to 15 years of power of Benjamin Netanyahu as well as a political crisis of more than two years, which brought in four times the Israelis at the polls.
In the iconic Rabin Square, where Mr. Netanyahu's opponents have tirelessly called for his resignation every Saturday for more than a year, the music is at full blast.
In the same square, where the former Labor Prime Minister was assassinated in 1995 by a Jewish extremist, a cannon sends foam at a crowd drowned under a cloud of Israeli flags.
"
Bibi at home
", harangues a man from the podium.
In liberal Tel Aviv, the departure of Benjamin Netanyahu is experienced as a “
historic
”
moment
, says Chen Nevo, who works in marketing.
"
I'm a little shocked,
" confesses the one who came to the square with her young children, despite the late hour.
"
They're supposed to be sleeping, but we've been waiting for this moment for so long!"
".
"Get out"
But in the celebrations of the inhabitants of Tel Aviv, a city where the liberal and left-wing youth of the country are concentrated, the fear of a disillusioning tomorrow also points.
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The new Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is the herald of the radical right, close to the clergy, the settlers and the new government, which includes two left-wing parties, puts right-wing parties in the spotlight.
"
It's a strange government, but I believe in these people, they want to bring Israel together
," said Ms. Nevo.
“
I don't know if this will last, but it's a change and we needed it,
” she says as
John Lennon's
song “
Imagine
”
resonates
in Hebrew and English.
Rubi Sofer, 48, also came with his family from Rishon Letzion, a suburb of Tel Aviv.
Him, his wife and his two daughters: all wear a black T-shirt on which is inscribed the two white letters of the anti-Netanyahu protest movement which has punctuated Israeli life every Saturday for more than a year, "
Lekh
", or "
Clear
".
“
Tonight is an incredible night for us.
For the past ten months, we have been in Balfour (the Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem editor's note) every Saturday, even during the pandemic,
”said this employee of the construction sector.
"
We don't like Bibi at all, he destroyed Israeli society,
" says the man with the nose piercing, who recognizes his security benefits but blames him for neglecting social issues. "
Israeli society needs to heal
." "
Bennett is not my sweetest dream but to win the war sometimes you have to know how to lose small battles, and to replace Bibi, we needed that
".
