Let's start from the end: it is allowed, good and important to demonstrate in Tel Aviv.
It is not a sin, nor an indulgence, Tel Aviv is the most important city in Israel.
Jerusalem is the official capital of Israel, Tel Aviv is its cultural and economic capital.
It is responsible for about 30 percent of the GDP - take it out of the State of Israel, and you will get a weak and weakened Israeli economy.
The struggle for the image of the State of Israel is a struggle of values: freedom, equality, the rule of law and democratic Judaism, in the face of closure and seclusion and coercive and coercive Judaism.
You can use until tomorrow clichés such as a demonstration of espresso drinkers, sushi eaters, ham eaters, artists, those who go to watch film noir movies at midnight at the Cinematheque - a mockery of what and who made Israel the place the eyes of the world are on.
In the end, the Tel Aviv values are what made Israel a start-up nation, a huge exporter of content and an international cultural capital.
And no, Tel Aviv is not the stronghold of burglary and abomination, the place where in kindergarten there are only, mercifully, children who have a father and a father and a mother and a mother.
Nor is it a dark city of sins that can quickly bring you down, where there are "weirds" and where everything is allowed.
Clichés upon clichés that were, in part, relevant 30 years ago and today have no grip on reality, but they still remain a striking tool.
Tel Aviv is really not a scary and leftist and promiscuous world, it has an essence and a statement and a worldview.
There is still espresso in Tel Aviv, a lot of espresso.
But today there is espresso everywhere.
The State of Israel has changed completely in recent years and has become more and more the State of Tel Aviv.
What was an exciting and anthropologically valuable Tel Aviv innovation in the early 1990s, is today the common property: there are cultural centers all over the country, the culinary scene has spread, high-tech has broken the boundaries of the center and today you can find high-tech companies in Beer Sheva and Jerusalem and in Rehovot and Ashdod.
Real estate prices have skyrocketed, the costs have led to a significant migration of young families out of the city. Employment centers are being built all over the country today, so there are a lot of "Tel Avivites" in Kiryat Ono and Ganei Tikva and in Ashdod and in Rehovot.
At the time, "The Siren's Song" was a groundbreaking book, the voice of an entire generation of young women for whom going through Birch following love seemed to be the greatest challenge in life.
Today a private house in Yavne is a cherished dream, there is almost no one or one who would oppose it.
The Tel Aviv essence has spread and created a whole layer of people who may not live in Ma'ale Deval B, but don't live in Shinkin either.
The one from the song "Greh Bashinkin", written by Yair Lapid?
She has been living in a plot of land in Ness Ziona or in some cooperative settlement in the south for years;
She has a mortgage and two or three or four children;
Her son enlisted not long ago, her daughter is in prep school, and she wears black not because she's depressed - but because it's slimming.
In the USA there are tens of millions of people who will live their lives without ever being in New York. There are few people in Israel, if any, who will not come to Tel Aviv at least once in their lives.
This is because it is still the cultural capital of Israel, the freest place in the country, a bubble when it comes to creativity and freedom of expression.
Yes, there is a kind of Tel Aviv state of mind.
And there is a mayor who insists on Tel Aviv values.
Ron Huldai is the most functional and active opposition to the current government, his influence is much stronger than that of Lapid or Gantz.
But from here to contempt for the Tel Aviv struggle is a long distance.
Mainly because the majority of Israeli citizens love Tel Aviv and what it represents: openness, inclusiveness, equality and creative dreams.
Tel Aviv today has Tel Aviv branches everywhere in Israel.
It is not the Tel Avivians who are fighting - it is first and foremost their values.
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