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Yair Lapid addresses crowds outside Knesset

Opposition leader Yair Lapid hailed demonstrators gathered outside the Knesset, declaring: "We won't shut up and we won't rest until the State of Israel has a constitution. 

"There's one thing the extremists in the government didn't take into consideration: you," he told protesters. 

"They thought they would confuse you with the lies... but then the opposite happened. Hundreds of thousands of Israelis went out. What happened in the streets will be written in history." 

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Opposition leader Yair Lapid addresses protesters outside the Knesset in Jerusalem on 27 March 2023 (MEE/Oren Ziv)