The "Friends of Gilad Shalit" and dozens of youth from the "Revolution" project planned to present an actual cage to Defense Minister Ehud Barak outside his home on Monday. The idea was to approximate the conditions of Shalit's captivity. Volunteers planned to enter and stay in the cage for a few hours.
Leader of the Public Campaign for the Release of Hostages, Miki Leibovitch explained why Barak was the first recipient of the "cage treatment." 
Our aim is to finger the people directly responsible for getting Gilad back ...
The point of the campaign, she said, is to force the government to work harder to bring Shalit home from Hamas captivity: "The mere thought [expressed by Defense Minister Barak on Sunday] that a loud protest would harm the negotiations [with Hamas for Shalit] does the real harm. That is not what we're aiming for. Our aim is to finger the people directly responsible for getting Gilad back – the prime minister, the defense minister and the government.
"We are against preposterous rallies that just use flying balloons."
While the next stage of the wave of Gilad Shalit demonstrations was preparing to land in front of Barak's home, the defense minister told IDF Army Radio that he "loses sleep over [Gilad's continued captivity] night after night."
Organizers plan to bring the cage to the residences of all 120 members of Knesset until Shalit is brought home.
Gilad's father Noam Shalit, meanwhile, is pressing for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to make good on the promise to step down from the premiership right after the holidays.