The sun is setting behind the hills at a highway intersection leading into Nazareth. Cars drive by, Israeli commuters on their way home. Some slow down - honking their horns, leaning out to shout . It's not a traffic jam that stops them. Rather, it's a long, snaking line of women standing at the side of the road.
Police vehicles pass frequently, as if on surveillance missions.
The women, already standing at a safe distance from the road, obey the police orders. Women standing in silent protest is no longer a harmless action that can be ignored by an Israeli public deeply polarized and waiting for war. Their silent presence is threatening - so threatening that news of their gathering brought anonymous death threats. Unlike similar protests happening in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, where Jewish women protest on behalf of Palestinian Arab rights, these are Jewish and Arab women standing together, next to one another, facing the wrath of angry Israelis. These are not women who have come together in reaction to two weeks of violence and bloodshed.