Jerusalem Magistrates Court Noam Solberg ruled today that the police must respect the principle of freedom of expression and allow protests outside the homes of public figures. He was responding to the arrests today - on two separate occasions! - of Kach activists protesting against the government\'s policy of restraint outside the home of Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer in Mevaseret Zion.
Protestor Itamar Ben-Gvir told Arutz-7\'s Yosef Zalmanson that the police stopped their protest this morning, \"and then quickly released us, without even asking us to sign anything, when they saw that the case was about to go to court. Even so, I asked the judge about the legality of the police move against us, and he wrote that the police must allow public protests of this nature, in accordance with a Supreme Court ruling in a case I brought in 1996…. Later this afternoon, we arrived outside Ben-Eliezer\'s home to renew our protest, and again the police stopped us. But again, in the middle of the court hearing, they withdrew their complaint… I told the police that the law allows us to protest in this manner, but they said that they have their own regulations regarding protests outside the homes of public figures. We will be there tomorrow morning again, and I suspect that the police will once again try to stop us, in direct violation of the law.\"
Protestor Itamar Ben-Gvir told Arutz-7\'s Yosef Zalmanson that the police stopped their protest this morning, \"and then quickly released us, without even asking us to sign anything, when they saw that the case was about to go to court. Even so, I asked the judge about the legality of the police move against us, and he wrote that the police must allow public protests of this nature, in accordance with a Supreme Court ruling in a case I brought in 1996…. Later this afternoon, we arrived outside Ben-Eliezer\'s home to renew our protest, and again the police stopped us. But again, in the middle of the court hearing, they withdrew their complaint… I told the police that the law allows us to protest in this manner, but they said that they have their own regulations regarding protests outside the homes of public figures. We will be there tomorrow morning again, and I suspect that the police will once again try to stop us, in direct violation of the law.\"