May Day celebrations throughout Israel were in a lower key than usual this year, because of the Sabbath. The largest demonstration and workers’ rally was in Tel Aviv, where some 35,000 members of Socialist Zionist youth movements marched along Ibn Gevirol Street, virtually cutting the city into two for several hours. Slogans carried by the marchers denounced settlements in Arab areas of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
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