As they were absorbing the shock from the huge demonstration Saturday night in Tel Aviv, government ministers, at the behest of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, fanned out among the television and radio studios in an effort to calm the populace.
Netanyahu's orders were, on the one hand, to warmly embrace the demonstrators, to identify with them and express sympathy for their plight. On the other hand, they were to warn the audiences of the possible ramifications of the economic earthquake shaking up the capital markets of the United States and Europe.
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