Prenosimo najnovije vijesti o protestima u Izraelu - ne samo u Tel-Avivu, već širom Izraela. Stvaraju se gradovi - šatori. Traži se "socijalna pravda", traže se promjene, gradnja socijalnih stanova, besplatno školovanje, socijalna država, niže cijene , postavljaju se uvjeti predsjedniku Netanyahu.
Focus shifts from Tel Aviv to outlying towns as 75,000 protesters call for change
25,000 assemble in Haifa, 20,000 people fill Rager Boulevard in Be’er Sheva, in Afula, some 15,000 people gather, more than 1,500 people march down the city’s main street in Eilat. By Ilan Lior , Revital Levy-Stein and Revital Hoval Tags: Israel housing protest Haifa Eilat
Some 75,000 people came out in protest against Israel’s high cost of living last night in 15 cities and towns across Israel, with the largest rallies in Be’er Sheva and Haifa, each drawing 25,000.
“The is a much bigger success than we expected. We are amazed at the show of strength in the south and the north, and glad that the voice of all of Israel, not just Tel Aviv, is being heard,” said Roi Neuman, a protest leader. Protesters demonstrating on Haifa’s Ben-Gurion Boulevard last night. Around 25,000 people turned out in the northern city.
In Haifa, the leader of Haifa’s Carmel tent city, Yossi Baruch, told the protesters gathered in the German Colony:
“We know what we want. We want a welfare state. Free education for every girl and boy, from the moment maternity leave ends and until the child finishes a doctorate. A welfare state whose citizens are paid a fair wage...
But another activist, Guy Goldstein from the Dror Israel movement, said from the dais: “We are not against a specific person, we’re against a policy, we are for a welfare state.”
Arab speakers reiterated the slogan, in Arabic, “The people demand the fall of the tycoons.” A representative of the downtown neighborhood of Hadar, Hamoudi Hujeirat, called for cooperation between Jews and Arabs. “We are one people” he said, to the cheers of the crowd.
The organizers of the Haifa protest said they had funded the rally themselves, among other ways by selling T-shirts, and that the municipality had donated the stage equipment.
Writer Sami Michael told the crowd in Arabic: “At age 85, it’s hard to be optimistic but the younger generation today makes me feel optimistic. Today the public is showing for the first time a connection between classes, between cities and villages, betweenArabs and Jews, and I don’t remember anything like this in Haifa.
The impact of the Middle East has reached us, too,” he said. In Be’er Sheva more than 20,000 people filled Rager Boulevard.
Neighborhood leader Sigal Keren called from the dais a comment on Netanyahu: “You went with the tycoons, and what have they done to you now...they dictate to you what to do.
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