Tel Aviv: Gathering for the liberal-democratic torch-lighting ceremony, uniting protest organizations and stepping into independence! 🧵

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Tel Aviv Museum Square (what was Hostages Square) is full of participants ahead of the democratic torch-lighting ceremony.
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At the end of the citizens' gathering for Yom Ha'atzmaut in Tel Aviv: DEMOCRACY!

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The October Council and activists from protest organizations are demonstrating this morning outside the homes of government ministers. In Hod HaSharon, outside the home of Education Minister Yoav Kisch, the police confiscated the sound system and a megaphone.

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Tel Aviv - Protest this morning also outside the home of the Speaker of the Knesset, Amir Ohana.
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“As religion tightens its grip on power, liberal Israelis are rediscovering their strength – but still lack a compelling, modern-day vision of Judaism. Before the liberals reclaim the country, they must decide what it means to be secular”
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🕯️💔 Habima Square, Tel Aviv

Ofri Bibas at a rally at Habima Square:

“It was possible to save Shiri, Ariel, and Kfir. Prime Minister — a second Holocaust has happened to us. You will not escape responsibility. 🧵

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“We are back to protesting in favor of establishing a proper government.” 🔥

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Thousands are protesting across the country against what they call the “government of abandonment and failures.”

Crowds arrived at Habima Square, where a ceremony titled “The Day of Forgetting of the Government of Israel” is being held, organized by the October Council under the slogan:m 🧵

🕯️ Eyal Eshel, who lost his daughter, an observation soldier, on October 7:

“Roni did not die because they didn’t know. Roni died because they didn’t listen. If you do not take responsibility, you are not only responsible for what happened—you are also responsible for what will happen tomorrow.”🧵

☠️ “The Death Eaters cult has arrived in Jerusalem.”

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Protest and march in Jerusalem.

Yair Golan at Habima Square.
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“Between sanctity and grief. Habima Square, Tel Aviv

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Habima Square, Tel Aviv
A ‘We Will Not Forget’ rally—for the memory of truth, not of cover-ups. We will never forget. October Council.”

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“Once again this week, dozens of determined men and women from the north didn’t stay home—they went out to call for a change in the war and an end to the abandonment of the north.”

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“We will not forget and we will not forgive. We will not forget and we will not let it be forgotten

Habima Square, Tel Aviv

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