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Only 5,000 Showed Up, One Caped

A mass rally that was supposed to combine Social justice activists with the ‘Suckers Camp’ proved once again that there’s such a thing as too many rallies. Last night the Tel Aviv square looked very sparsely populated, despite organizers’ promises/hopes.

But whether or not this spells the end of this wave of rallies – the prime minister, his finance minister and the Israel bank governor made a compelling case for budget cuts, fuel, cigarettes and beer taxes, and imposing an extra point on the already high VAT – it’s clear that someone somewhere in Tel Aviv last night managed to turn on the bat signal.

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Yori Yanover has been a working journalist since age 17, before he enlisted and worked for Ba'Machane Nachal. Since then he has worked for Israel Shelanu, the US supplement of Yedioth, JCN18.com, USAJewish.com, Lubavitch News Service, Arutz 7 (as DJ on the high seas), and the Grand Street News. He has published Dancing and Crying, a colorful and intimate portrait of the last two years in the life of the late Lubavitch Rebbe, (in Hebrew), and two fun books in English: The Cabalist's Daughter: A Novel of Practical Messianic Redemption, and How Would God REALLY Vote.