Mobilizing to help, activists say government is failing to meet citizens' needs after the October 7 Hamas massacre; once war is over, they say, they'll resume democracy battle
Volunteers toiled away at Tel Aviv's convention centre, doing "anything our government fails to", said an Israeli protest leader who has helped turn his movement into a huge relief operation since last weekend's Hamas attack."Civil society organisations. are supporting anything our government fails to support," said Ami Dror, 50, a tech CEO who has emerged as a prominent protest leader since the legal reform agenda was unveiled in January by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government.
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Volunteers toiled away at Tel Aviv's convention centre, doing "anything our government fails to", said an Israeli protest leader who has helped turn his movement into a huge relief operation since last weekend's Hamas attack.For 39 straight weeks, opponents of the hard-right government's divisive judicial overhaul had brought tens of thousands of people onto the streets in what became the biggest protest movement in Israel's history.