TEL AVIV-YAFO, Israel — Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir announced on Wednesday evening the cancelation of a planned prayer service in Tel Aviv, after organizers of a counterdemonstration said they were moving their mixed-gender prayers away from Dizengoff Square in a bid to avoid a confrontation.
“In light of the announcement by the leaders of the extreme left-wing protest that they would no longer repeat the antisemitic activity they carried out on Yom Kippur, in which Jews praying were expelled from the public sphere, I decided to cancel the service tomorrow,” said Ben-Gvir, who heads the Otzma Yehudit Party, in a post to X.
