One of the reasons I feel i have to be involved in whatever happens here is that everything makes a difference.   Even though the news is barely mentioning the fact today, I know that more than a hundred thousand people were involved in the demonstration last night.  Despite the sadness at the terrible shootings at people leaving synagogues yesterday after religious services, the demonstrators joined together.  We did not sing, but recited the words of Ehud Manor’s lament that we must have to protest when we see injustice – with a pained body, with a heavy heart, we have to register our objections.

WHAT IS OUR OBJECTION?  1. to the demotion of the high court to a rubber stamp for the knesset, erasing all checks and balances.  In the absence of a constitution, of a house of lords, or a congress, we have no means to balance the extreme laws being proposed by the government.   2.  to the racist laws proposed now with no possibility to be balanced in any way – excluding non-zionist voices to be heard 3. to the extreme religious laws being proposed, making this country into a theocracy 4. to the revamping of the education system that would impose a much greater emphasis on religious studies and a less emphasis on basic skills. 

My grandson is marching today against these measures.

Even if these marches will not change the government’s plans to  ensure the dismissal of Bibi’s criminal trial and overturn the laws against Deri’s acting as a cabinet member, it will open an opportunity to reverse this direction of giving the country over to the criminals.