holiday meals at Balfour protests unreasonable

I don't generally complain about people breaking the rules of the Ministry of Health, of the lockdowns or other CoronaVirus related issues. Adults can do what they want, taking the risks into consideration and then pay the price if necessary.

That being said, this is ridiculous.

The protesters against Prime Minister Netanyahu at Balfour St set up a large table for a joint holiday meal on Rosh Hashana.

Forget the shared responsibility of perhaps curtailing the protests during a lockdown, perhaps minimizing them, perhaps even canceling them temporarily.... in the name of protest, tens, hundreds, maybe thousands of people, were allowed to have a shared holiday meal consisting of strangers (ie people who do not live in the same household together), sitting close together with no social distancing, no masks and no precautions.

Forget dangerous and not dangerous. Forget law or no law.

How is it that they are allowed to have a shared meal like that, and from the pictures they do not all look like youngsters, while the rest of the Israeli public is told it cannot have relatives over - grandparents, children, grandchildren, brother, cousins, sisters, etc. for the holiday meal? People are told that they have to have the holiday meal alone, under all sorts of threats and attempts to scare them, while protesters are allowed to hold a joint meal?

Allow protests, if you must, in the name of democracy, even if I think it is also a bad idea. They can go to Balfour, scream slogans, wave signs, and protest Bibi and his policies. Sitting down to a joint meal with a long table set up in holiday fare should not have been allowed when it is banned for everyone else.

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