Followup item covering the same protest <
https://www.aljazeera.com/editorial/2024/1/21/reporters-notebook-covering-an-first-antiwar-protest-in-israel>.
Seems the authorities tried strenuously, using every trick in their
book, to stop it going ahead. In the end the organizers had to go to
the Supreme Court to get it to confirm their right to hold a protest.
Even then, lots of restrictions were imposed: it was held on a
Saturday (Sabbath) where lack of public transport would make it hard
for people to attend; it had to be during the day, for a maximum of
two hours, and only a maximum of 700 people were allowed to be part of
it.
In spite of all that, Jews and Arabs, including some Jews who lost
family to the Hamas attack on Oct 7, were able to come together to
express their wish for an end to the war and the institution of
peaceful coexistence.
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