Since early April, employees of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art have protested each workday for 30 minutes before the museum opens. This staff-organized protest reflects a spectrum of opinions on the ongoing war and humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Although they are employees, they don’t represent the museum officially. The protest, held at the museum's entrances, connects with a broader protest movement in Israel, particularly in solidarity with hostages. On May 28, representing 600 days of conflict, protests took place nationwide, emphasizing the urgency and shared pain of the situation.
"Not everyone is standing for exactly the same reason. A different inner voice speaks within each of us but we stand together in the name of resistance, as a daily reminder, for a silent half hour recognizing that we cannot go on as if nothing has happened."
"We stand because the pain has become unbearable," the museum's senior curator of Israeli art Dalit Matatyahu, who initiated these protests, wrote in a message to the museum's employees last week.
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