More than 80,000 people on Saturday evening attended protests against the cost of living and soaring housing prices in the southern city of Beersheba, northern cities of Haifa and Afula and many other cities across the country. The rallies' participants included the leaders of the Tel Aviv protest city, youth movement members, leading members of Hadash, social activists, worker committees' representatives and famous artists.
The largest was in Haifa, more than 30,000 Jews and Arabs marched from the Kiryat Eliezer neighborhood to the German Colony, chanting: "We want social justice" and "The government is responsible for the crisis." Hundreds of red flags were carried by activists all over the country. Some 12,000 protestors gathered in Beersheba and 15,000 in Afula.
Thousands of people staged smaller rallies in Rosh Pina, Beit Shean, Nazareth, Nahariya, Netanya, Hod Hasharon, Ramat Hasharon, Natanya, Rishon Lezion, Petah Tikva, Modiin, Beit Shemesh, Ashkelon, Dimona and Eilat. Thousands of Arabs joined the social protest for the first time since it began with rallies in the cities of Sakhnin, Tayibe and Umm al-Fahem. The National Student Union sent some 50 buses carrying students from academic institutions in central Israel to the different rallies in the southern and northern cities.
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