The vigil in London started just about on time after a heated argument with
the police about where and how we were to hold the vigil. Eventually we were
kept to a small area of the pavement where we displayed banners and placards
and gave out leaflets and collected money.
For the full 5 hours we were not
allowed to cross the main road to get nearer to the Israeli Embassy (as we
always do on our regular Saturday vigils) - which was heavily protected with
extra barriers and police.
After a slow start, by half way through the afternoon, the numbers began to
increase so we had about 20 people over the last two hours. Also, by the
second half of the vigil we abandoned our caged area and spread out along
the pavement despite remonstrations from the police.
We gave out a large number of leaflets and a lot of information, collected
about £30, and about 40 people signed the very colourful and joyful birthday
card to Mordechai.
