Anti-Corruption Protesters March in Tel Aviv for Second Week in a Row

Jerusalem, 10 December, 2017 (TPS) -- Tens of thousands of people marched Saturday in Tel Aviv to protest against “government corruption” and called on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to step down, and former Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon called on Netanyahu to either “go home or go to jail” as corruption allegations swirling around the government continued to expand

The so-called “March of Shame” was held for the second week in a row along a main thoroughfare in Israel’s city that never sleeps and followed more revelations in recent days that some aides to senior Knesset members, as well as some MKs themselves, would be questioned in coming days. Police will reportedly question Coalition Whip MK David Bitan (Likud) Sunday for the third time in connection with corruption allegations stemming from his time as a city counsellor in Rishon Lezion.

Earlier Saturday, police confirmed that Idan Peretz, a long-time aide to Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz, was questioned in connection to the same investigation, known as Case 1803.

Senior Likud activists criticised the demonstrations, saying in response to the march that “at the same time as demonstrators throughout the Arab world were burning Israeli and American flags, the Left was demonstrating in Tel Aviv.”