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In the United States, the work week is Monday to Friday.

The weekend is Saturday and Sunday.

In Israel, Sunday is a work day.

The way they do their work week in Israel, Friday is a short day.

Saturday is off.

But Sunday is the start of the work week, generally speaking.

Except for this Sunday, yesterday it was not the start of the work week.

Did you see the size of the protests there this weekend?

The families of hostages still being held in Gaza called on Israelis all over the country

to protest yesterday on Sunday. Again, that's the start of the work week. Because it was the start of the work week, they also called on schools and businesses all over the country to close yesterday. Essentially, a general strike, a nationwide work stoppage. And people did that all over the country.

Everything was shut down. People marched all over Israel against their own government, demanding an end to the war in Gaza.

There were protests and marches all over the country yesterday, in some cases angry ones.

In some cases, people set fires and blocked highways.

It all culminated last night, Sunday night, in an absolutely massive protest in Tel Aviv.

Organizers say they had a turnout of nearly 500,000 people in Tel Aviv last night,

all demanding that Israel end the war, bring home the hostages and end it.

I mean, just for context, if they got 500,000 people, that size of a crowd in that size of a

country, if you adjusted for population, that would be the equivalent in our country

of 17 million Americans all turning out at once to protest in one place. That's what a crowd

of that size means in a country with that size population. Here in the United States, since Trump has been back in office,

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