The founder of Tel Aviv-based Electric Vehicle engine start-up EVR Motors says he has encouraged his workers to take part in the protests against the government.
“Those who want to participate and protest, I’ve encouraged them to take the day off. We pay them and we’re happy to have them protest,” Opher Doron tells the BBC World Service’s World Business Report programme.
“I was out protesting last night till well past midnight with my two sons blocking one of the major highways in Tel Aviv. We are protesting tonight. We’ll continue protesting for a long time, I presume. Until it works.”
He adds that he believes that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to extend the war with Hamas and that the government was spending money on “the wrong things”.
The mother of Hersh Goldberg-Polin says she will “miss you every single day for the rest of my life”.
Speaking at his funeral today, Rachel Goldberg-Polin said she had been in “such torment and worry” about Hersh for months, adding that it was “a specific type of misery that I have never experienced before”.
“Now I no longer have to worry about you,” she said. “I know you are no longer in danger.”
“Sweet boy, go now on your journey. I hope it’s as good as the trips you dreamed about because finally, my sweet boy… you are free.”
