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Demonstrators packed Tel Aviv's Rabin Square, where Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was killed in 1995 by a Jewish extremist, for Saturday's rally. Israeli media estimated the crowd at up to 150,000.
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'This is a protest of the majority,'' opposition leader Shimon Peres told the crowd. ''Eighty percent of our people want peace. One percent are trying to block it.''
The demonstration came as Palestinians marked the anniversary of Israel's establishment 56 years ago, a day known to Palestinians as ''the catastrophe.''
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