Hero of Israel (statue)

Hero of Israel (Hebrew: גיבור ישראל, Gibor Yisrael) is the name of a 900 kg bronze statue which stands on a 5-ton base. The statue is 5.5 meters tall and was placed at Paris Square, near the Prime Minister's residence, in Jerusalem on December 4, 2020 by Israeli artist Itay Zalait as a protest exhibition and an homage to the ongoing protests against Benjamin Netanyahu. The statue depicts a protester wearing a mask and kneeling with an Israeli flag in his hand. The flag was specially sown out of dacron for the exhibit.

According to Zalait, the statue is an homage to all the heroines and heroes of Israel fighting for their homeland, whoever they might be, while solidifying the image of the protester on the historic spectrum of the State of Israel.