They are everywhere.  Yesterday I was getting a disk drive replaced in Herzlia and the high-tech people were marching.  Today we went down the street and there were hundreds at a student demonstration, and I’m sure there were other demonstrations that I didn’t get stuck in traffic for.  A friend wrote me that the New Israel Fund is backing the demonstrations but I think it is important to emphasize that these are grass roots gatherings.  And it’s not about left or right.  It is about democracy and the visible manipulations of sociopathic individuals. 

I must admit, I never minded in the old days that there were restrictions on shabbat.  It didn’t really bother me that there was no public transportation and the stores were closed.  But now, when it is imposed, and new laws are being proposed to make bathing in public areas gender-specific and other nonsense that has nothing to do with religion, I really have a hunger for a ham sandwich on a Saturday train.  Nothing like an arbitrary rule to make me anarchic.