This was the largest demonstration since the demonstrations began.
People who have never been to a demonstration in their life, those who demonstrated maybe once in their life and even tourists who came to see this strange phenomenon: non-violent demonstrations, of people of all ages from all parts of Israel, who came to make their voices heard in a polite way.
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Hundreds of flowers were distributed to the police who secured the event.
Yes, in every demonstration there is a handful who seek to riot and destroy others, but this can also be said about parts of the Israeli Knesset.
There are many explanations for why hundreds of thousands took to the streets this evening. The incident at Sara Netanyahu's hair salon and the violence resorted to by the police succeeded in arousing even the most indifferent. The wild incitement of Yair Netanyahu who called the demonstrators "terrorists" translated into rage which translated into taking to the streets with the Israeli flag. And events Last Wednesday, when the atmosphere flared up for the first time and violent clashes were recorded, the protesters were given their breath back. They felt for the first time that the chairs in the Knesset began to shake.
Demonstration against the legal reform in front of the Likud headquarters at Ze'ev Citadel in Tel Aviv / Credit: Kaplan Protest
In the conversations under Azrieli, we suddenly heard a bank of goals that we had not heard before in these demonstrations: "We would be happy to meet at the polls", "elections very soon" or "we hope that Gantz will not fold".
And there was another feeling last night on Kaplan Street in Tel Aviv: that this time the demonstrations are going to work.
Another short push and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will stop the reform.
It is impossible that he prefers Bezalel Smotrich who calls for the erasure of a village of its inhabitants, over the hundreds of citizens who stood there with signs "I am right-wing but I care about democracy" or the hundreds of religious people who came to demonstrate and insisted that this is not a political matter but a sincere concern for democracy.
Paradoxically, the protesters felt that they were giving Binyamin Netanyahu the opportunity to get rid of the extremist elements of their system in the government, if only he would turn the wheel back.
On Saturday evening in Tel Aviv there was a rather amusing event: as usual, the young Tel Avivians and Israelis in general preferred the Purim parties and the smell of alcohol, and from both sides accompanied the marchers in Dizengoff Square.
From the first demonstrations, we notice that these are events for an older audience and not for those born at the beginning of the millennium, who for some reason are being ignored about what is happening in the country.
"Are you going to protest, ya Sahi?" a protester in her early twenties shouted at me, a bottle of beer in one hand, a cigarette in the other and too little fabric on her body.
Makhteziot in Ayalon,
The young people preferred to stay dressed up at the parties, while the older ones preferred to go on to the demonstration, perhaps because they don't think there is a reason to party given what has been happening in the country in recent months.
The young people, on the other hand, are busy with other things and demonstrations are less interesting to them.
In fact, the question arises, what do they even care about?
And another question that repeats itself in all these demonstrations: where is the Arab sector?
Even the adults don't come there, certainly not the young ones.
Looking at these demonstrations, it seems that Israeli society has already returned to its disintegration into tribes.
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