Anti-Netanyahu protesters: Demonstrations to increase during elections

• Author: EVE YOUNG
• Published date: 06 December 2020
• Date: 06 December 2020
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

"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 and 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 several that organize the weekly protests against the prime minister, in a statement on Saturday.

The Investigate Now movement, an organization demanding an investigation against Netanyahu in Case 3000, the "Submarines Affair," 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 also on Saturday.

Thousands gathered at protests Saturday night outside 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, arriving 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 trial, calling 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 trial 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 in a conflict of...