Thursday: Move clocks back until hostages return
At end of Thursday's rally in Tel Aviv for return of three kidnapped soldiers, all supporters of cause to be called to move clocks back 15 minutes. Organizers promise that only when soldiers are released will they return their clocks to correct time 'and Israel to its sanity'
The Goldwasser, Regev, and Shalit families explained: "We waiver between hope and despair for the fate of the kidnapped. We need the strength and support of the public."
During the rally, public figures and representatives of the families will give speeches and top-rate Israeli artists will perform. The rally organizers say that at the end of the event, in an unprecedented unique act, all the participants – as well as those who couldn't come, but support the release of the kidnapped – to turn their clocks back 15 minutes.
The organizers swear that only when the soldiers are released will they return their clocks to the correct time and "Israel to its sanity."
"Everyone who empathizes with the families, for whom time has stood still, will be called to move their clocks – all their clocks - back 15 minutes," explains Roee Barak, one of the rally's organizers and a good friend of Udi Goldwasser. "More than just a gesture, this is a quiet, yet painful, public protest, which is essentially some kind of identification with the kidnapped soldiers themselves, whose time has stood still
"Time is something that touches all of us and has ramifications for all aspects of life, on everything issue. Therefore, at least we hope, a gesture of identification that is connected with time will actively touch each and every one of us. We hope that the public outcry that will come from the rally will make it clear to those holding public positions in Israel that they are living on borrowed time until the kidnapped are returned."
One of the public figures taking part in the rally is Major-general (Res.) Uzi Dayan, head of the association for the release of the kidnapped.
"We must signal to the world that all of Israel is unified in its demand for the release of the three kidnapped soldiers," he said Wednesday. "I hope that the people of Israel will comprehend the importance of their participation in this rally and will come to the square in droves."
Karnit Goldwasser, Uzi Goldwasser's wife, is very active in working toward the release of her husband and the two other soldiers, and said in preparation of the rally: "From the moment Eldad, Gilad, and Udi were kidnapped, many people have asked us what they can do and how they can help. Now I am asking from everyone who wants to help to come to Rabin Square on Thursday evening and to show the families and the whole world that we will not keep quiet until they come home."
The rally will be hosted by actress and bereaved mother Osnat Vishinsky. During the rally, artists such as Rita, Korin Alal, Yardena Arazi, Shotei Hanevua, and David D'Or will perform. Rami Kleinstein will debut his song "It Isn't Finished," which he wrote specially for the kidnapped.
