pictures speak

Protesters marching through Ben Yehuda street in Jerusalem.  In every city we had visited, we saw “tent cities” set up in parks and protesters in the streets like the one below.  The Israelis I spoke to said they havent seen any protests of this scale for as long as they have been alive.  They are mostly protesting inflation of food staples and lack of affordable housing and they are trying to focus the government’s attention on the plight of the Israeli middle class.  Even the Israeli doctor I spent time with could not afford to buy a home, all he could afford was to rent.