WEST BANK (Dispatches) – Hundreds of Israelis have held a demonstration near Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit’s home to denounce the slow progress in corruption investigations involving Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The protest, which did not have a police permit, took place in the city of Petah Tikva on Saturday, the 32nd such weekly event near Mandelblit’s home, Ynetnews website reported.
Waving placards reading "free us from corruption” and "Netanyahu is a disaster,” demonstrators shouted slogans such as, "government of the corrupt" and "Netanyahu resign!”
Protester Aliza Hershkowitz accused Netanyahu of dividing Israel, saying, "That's how the worst leaders in history acted."
"I am a grandmother and I decided that I would not sit still as long as I see the corruption around us,” she said. "If there is such corruption, then you have to go out into the streets.”
Yehezkel Baghdadi, another participant in Saturday’s rally, said, "I have been demonstrating here since day one, driving around with a sign on my car that says 'Bibi the Prime Minister of Thieves'.”
He further stressed that if Israeli opposition leader Isaac Herzog had done what Netanyahu did, the premier would have called for mass protests to kick him out.
"We will slowly bring the people out (to the streets), we will multiply and become thousands,” he added.
Earlier this week, Mandelblit said the two major probes involving Netanyahu, called Case 1,000 and Case 2,000, were "moving forward at high speed” and there would be no short cuts.