As the vast crowds made their way along Tel Aviv’s Kaplan Street on Saturday night, for their twelfth successive week of escalating protests against the bid by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition to take over the judiciary, many carried the national flag — the most potent possible symbol of their demand for the democratic, tolerant Jewish Israel promised in the Declaration of Independence.Others brandished a variety of placards and banners — many of them targeting Netanyahu and his main revolutionary henchmen, Justice Minister Yariv Levin and Constitution, Law and Justice Committee chairman Simcha Rothman.
But some held posters bearing three other faces — those of Nir Barkat, Avi Dichter and Yoav Gallant — and the slogan “The silent lambs.” READ MORE
