Live broadcast from the demonstration in the Hima Square in Tel Aviv
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A demonstration for burden equality began this evening (Thursday) in Tel Aviv's HaBima square.
Representatives from the "Brothers in Arms" movement and other organizations that work to promote equality in recruitment to the IDF will speak at the demonstration. Before the demonstration, the police called on the demonstrators to behave according to the law and not to confront the police, and blocked the Kaplan intersection in the city.
During the rally in the square, the demonstrators signed a large poster with a petition for equal burden. Omri Ronan, from Brothers in Arms, said in his speech at the rally: "I returned from 153 days of reserve.
On October 7, I jumped to Nir Oz and saw the horrors with my own eyes.
We want the ultra-Orthodox in the army now.
No rejections, no politics and no exercises.
Learn - and keep the borders, learn - and activate the Iron Dome.
Both."
Avi and Shoham, a husband and wife from Kfar Saba, came to the demonstration together. "We are enlisting for the conscription law and also to bring about elections that will put an end to this terrible government," they said. "Today our daughter began her discharge leave after being an instructor in combat engineering.
If she gave her strength in the field there is no reason why all the others should not be part of the story.
Demonstration for equality in burden at the Hamima square in Tel Aviv.
March 14, 2024/Reuters, Ronnie Levinson
Demonstrators sign a poster with a petition for equal burden, at a demonstration in the Hamima Square in Tel Aviv, March 14, 2024/Uri Sela
"Inequality has always been in our blood and felt like a terrible injustice," they shared.
"What is different now is the feeling that there is an opportunity to make a change, because of the disaster that happened to our country, because our souls have been torn apart. Our children no longer bear the burden. This is a turning point, politically and personally. This is the time for the politicians to do social justice and stop hiding behind slogans."
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