Yaya Pink, a candidate for the Democrats party, said yesterday that although today is the fast of the 17th of Tammuz, he — as a religious Jew — will go buy orange juice at a non-kosher restaurant, in a provocative statement aimed at protest over the fast.
Yaya Pink, a reserve major and candidate in the Democrats party primaries, made the statement yesterday according to a Telegram post attributed to his campaign. Pink described himself in the post as "religious" ("כדתי") and said he will buy orange juice at a non-kosher restaurant on the fast of the 17th of Tammuz, a day of mourning in the Jewish calendar. The statement appears intentionally provocative, aimed at expressing a secular-liberal protest against religious coercion in public life. Pink has previously been associated with protests against the current government, filing a police complaint against MK Meir Porush last month. The remark comes amid ongoing cultural and political tensions over the role of religion in public spaces in Israel.
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