Israeli protesters are back on their feet. Missing is a unified voice.
by Shoshanna Solomon
Apr 24, 2024
4 minutes
At the intersection of Tel Aviv’s Kaplan and Begin streets, some demonstrators were putting up posters that called for immediate elections.
Thousands of others, wrapped in Israeli flags or beating drums, listened to a speaker urging the military conscription of the nation’s ultra-Orthodox religious population to share the burden of war.
From a few hundred yards away, one could hear the anguished and angry cries of “Deal now!” by the families of hostages seized by Hamas one horrible day in October, demanding the government negotiate their release.
The two demonstrations eventually merged, as the political rally joined up with that of
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