Statue of Netanyahu placed in Tel Aviv in protest

A gilded statue of Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu was placed Monday night in Rabin Square near the center of Tel-Aviv.

An anonymous artist placed the statue and explained that the goal is to stimulate public discussion on the limits of freedom of expression by placing a statue of the “king,” as he put it, in the center of Tel-Aviv.

The Tel-Aviv municipality taped a message to the statue, demanding that it be removed by 12:58pm Tuesday afternoon or the city will remove it and fine the perpetrator, according to Artuz Sheva.

Acting Tel-Aviv mayor Assaf Zamir said that “this will be treated just as any other instance of placing something in public space without permission. The message is fine, but the statue has to go.”