Anti-Netanyahu protesters: Demonstrations to grow during elections

• Date: 06 December 2020
• Author: EVE YOUNG
• Published date: 06 December 2020

"Our obligation as citizens during elections is to go out and protest the accused [Netanyahu] and not give him any respite. We must remind him of his failures at handling the coronavirus, the economy and the division of the people [he has caused]. This is a struggle for Israel's soul - a struggle we must win," said the Black Flags Movement, one of the movements that organizes the weekly protests against Netanyahu, in a statement Saturday.

The Investigate Now movement, an organization demanding an investigation of Case 3000 against Netanyahu, also said that elections will not end protests.

"Elections or not - the citizens of Israel deserve to know if the prime minister of Israel dealt in Israel's security because of greed. This is the most serious security incident since the founding of the country - an incident that if it turns out to be true - will not be forgiven," said the organization in a statement Saturday.

Thousands gathered at protests Saturday night outside of the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem, according to Israeli media.

Hundreds of cars drove in a protest caravan, travelling to the demonstrations while groups of protesters marched to the residence Saturday night leaving from four different locations in Jerusalem.

The Hasphira Leachor (countdown) protest organization held an alternative torch lighting ceremony in protest of the postponement of Netanyahu's trail and called on the Knesset to legislate a bill that would prevent someone under indictment from serving as prime minister.

"For three months we have counted down to the day of Netanyahu's trail beginning again, and as we were warned, he managed to escape it again," said the organization.

"A shocking nightmare is unfolding before us, in which a full time accused man, who is at a conflict of interest for every decision he...