Organizers claimed that their counts throughout the country indicated some 400,000 protesters in all, though this could not be independently confirmed.
As the main Tel Aviv rally ended, limited clashes once again erupted between police and some demonstrators, as the latter broke through barriers to enter the Ayalon Highway — action police and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir had vowed to prevent.
Police used horse-mounted cops and water cannons against the demonstrators as they sought to disperse them, with the Haaretz news site reporting that this had happened while the protesters were leaving the highway anyway and was not preceded by violence. Officials said at least four were detained. The highway was eventually reopened for traffic after around an hour of closures. READ MORE
