‘March of the Million dance’ in Tel Aviv

September 2, 2011 - 7:28 AM by David

This weekend could be the ‘make or break’ time for the social protest movement depending on how many people show up on Saturday night for the touted ‘March of the Million’ taking place in cities throughout the country.

Flyers and posters around the cities have the tag line “Where were you on September 3?” in an attempt to give it the weight of another cataclysmic Israeli event – when the question “where were you on November 5” was asked following prime minister Yitzhak Rabin’s 1995 assassination.

Itzik Shmuli, head of the National Union of Students, one of the march’s organizers, also spoke in prophetic terms about the protest, saying in a statement that “this Saturday we are taking our socioeconomic fate into our own hands. If we don’t come to the protest we will hand our fate over for the next 25 years.”

Another organization decided to promote the march in a different way. Earlier this week, the Public Movement decided to hit the streets with a mass dance session.

A few dozen mobilized at a busy Tel Aviv intersection in a flash mob of folk dancing and revelry. One of the group members, Saar Szekely, explained that dancing creates a “thematic solidarity between people.”

And aside from a couple irate drivers, the dance protest seemed to achieve its goals in their two-and –a-half minute dance. Chances are there will be a whole lot more people out in the streets on Saturday night.

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