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Holding protests and demonstrations can pressure the government and bear fruit, the national director of NGO Omdim Beyachad, Alon-Lee Green, told The Jerusalem Post on Monday.
The movement has led the protests against the planned deportation of African migrants in the past few months and said it views the new plan to regulate the status of 16,250 of them as a victory.
"This is a great victory," Green said. "It is a victory, first and foremost for the asylum-seekers, and also for the residents of the neighborhoods of southern Tel Aviv.
"It is also a victory for the tens of thousands of activists who showed us in the past few months what determination looks like," he said.
Omdim Beyachad (Hebrew for "Standing Together") organized protests throughout the country, with the largest one including over 20,000 demonstrators. Among the protesters were...