Nadav Galon, one of the leaders of the protest against the reform, spoke with Ben Caspit Vinon Magal on 103FM about the day of disruption and told about the planned events. "We are protesting, disrupting, marching and raising our voice against the government's attempt to promote dictatorial laws here and harm the most central value in democracy – the value of equality.
"The morning started very early in a series of centers, we had a demonstration outside the house of Smotrich, of Ben Gvir, a large demonstration in Bnei Brak with a demand for equality in the military burden. On our agenda right now is a very large demonstration in Tel Aviv outside the rabbinate of the women's protest with a demand For equality, about 250 demonstration centers throughout the day.
Nadav Galon, one of the leaders of the protest against the reform, spoke with Ben Caspit Vinon Magal on 103FM about the day of disruption and told about the planned events. "We are protesting, disrupting, marching and raising our voice against the government's attempt to promote dictatorial laws here and harm the most central value in democracy – the value of equality.
"The morning started very early in a series of centers, we had a demonstration outside the house of Smotrich, of Ben Gvir, a large demonstration in Bnei Brak with a demand for equality in the military burden. On our agenda right now is a very large demonstration in Tel Aviv outside the rabbinate of the women's protest with a demand For equality, about 250 demonstration centers throughout the day.
"Currently the Arava road in the Yatbata area is blocked. There is a joint Jewish-Arab demonstration in Nazareth, we think there will be something in the Wadi Aara area as well. There is supposed to be a convoy of vehicles there. There is currently a joint demonstration in Jaffa in the Clock Square. We are in favor of equality in the burden, we think that a fair and just solution should be found To serve everyone, not necessarily military."
Why Bnei Brak and not Taiva?
"I have not seen the Arab leaders promoting legislation to evade. We are in favor of equality in service for Arabs as well, and we have said it from the first moment. The Arab leaders sit in the government and they did not tell us? Can they influence the legislation? I am in favor of equality.
"Our demand for equality in the burden is a central demand today and it is not the only one. Equality and the trampling of equality as the government seeks to promote is, among other things, expressed in the inequality towards Arabs, Druze. The institutionalized discrimination against Druze, who by the way serve and are really unequal in the country. Also towards Arabs. These are issues of Inequality that screams to the sky, and we also voice this law."
On the issue of the conscription of the Arab citizens, he said: "The State of Israel decided for security reasons that the Arab citizens would not be obliged to conscription. It found the ultra-Orthodox a combine that lasted for too many years and created an inequality in carrying the burden. If the Arab leadership had acted actively in this matter to promote evasion, it would have been something else." .
