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Noah Efron
July 15, 2014, 12:23 am
Noah Efron
The summer of our discontent
On the third anniversary of the social protests, when tents were our shelters and the seeds of change were sown
Finance Minister Yair Lapid (R) and Minister of Agriculture Yair Shamir attend a press conference announcing a controlled reduction of the price of soft white cheese and whipping cream, December 30, 2013. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
From the WebDecember 30, 2013, 11:01 pm
Gov’t slaps price controls on more dairy products
Globes: For the first time since 2011’s cottage-cheese boycott, Lapid intervenes on cost of white cheese, whipping cream
Protesters in Tel Aviv Saturday night. (photo credit: Gili Yaari/ Flash90)
July 13, 2013, 8:49 pm
Major Tel Aviv highway blocked as thousands rally for social justice
On two-year anniversary of 2011 demos, finance minister slammed for empty promises and Netanyahu blamed for favoring tycoons; Lapid says he’ll be vindicated
By Adiv Sterman
Thousands of social protesters demonstrate in Tel Aviv in the summer of 2011. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)
May 9, 2013, 2:21 pm
Social protesters rev up over Lapid’s cuts
Demonstrations Thursday and Saturday; Bennett supports finance minister, says unpopular tax hikes a necessity
By Asher Zeiger
Daphni Leef, one of the leaders of the social justice protest movement, with other demonstrators (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)
April 1, 2013, 4:47 am
Daphni Leef says she isn’t running for mayor of Tel Aviv
Less than a week after intimating that she’s considering her candidacy, social protest leader says she has other plans
By Michal Shmulovich
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and economist Manuel Trajtenberg after the prime minister persuaded his cabinet to back the Trajtenberg Commission recommendations in 2012. (Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash90)
From the WebFebruary 24, 2013, 9:49 pm
Trajtenberg Committee whitewashed government actions
Globes: Leaked transcripts of meetings raise questions over how economic reform team reached its recommendations
Asma Aghbaria-Zahalka, the head of the Daam party, poses for a photograph in Tel Aviv on Thursday. (photo credit: AP/Dan Balilty)
January 18, 2013, 9:23 am
Jewish-Arab party makes long-shot election bid
Daam party’s nonconformist platform calls for coexistence, ruffles feathers of established Arab lists
By Diaa Hadid
Daphni Leef is arrested by police in June during a demonstration on Tel Aviv's Rothschild Boulevard. (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)
January 7, 2013, 1:41 am
State files indictment against social protest leader
Daphni Leef faces charges of assaulting a police officer, disrupting the peace and resisting arrest
By Adiv Sterman
Shelly Yachimovich speaks during the Labor party's Central Committee meeting in Tel Aviv on October 30, 2012. (photo credit: Flash90)
November 29, 2012, 6:31 am
Labor heads to the ballot box with fears of irrelevance and a dovish slide
Shortage of candidates with security credentials harms resurgent socioeconomic-focused party, and Shelly Yachimovich fears her slate will mirror Likud’s tilt rightward
By Raphael Ahren
Alon Tal
November 22, 2012, 5:16 pm
Alon Tal
Casualty of war: a genuine debate on who we want to be
Will the upcoming elections fail, once again, to focus on the social agenda?
National Student Union chairman Itzik Shmuli, right, one of the leaders of the summer 2011 social justice protests, shakes hands with Shelly Yachimovich as he joins the Labor Party on October 17, 2012. (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
October 18, 2012, 2:01 pm
Social protest movement leader joins Labor Party
Itzik Shmuli, head of the National Student Union, seeks Knesset seat
By Stuart Winer
Stav Shaffir attends a discussion in the Knesset in February (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
October 13, 2012, 3:54 am
Social protest leader aims for the Knesset
Stav Shaffir seeks Labor Party seat
By Ron Friedman
Children. They reign supreme in Israel. (photo credit: Sophie Gordon/Flash 90)
August 11, 2012, 11:08 am
Things you’ll do in Israel that you wouldn’t, shouldn’t or couldn’t do abroad
From broadening your social life courtesy of the social justice movement to befriending taxi drivers, a somewhat autobiographical quirky quintet
By Michal Shmulovich
Thousands of Israelis rally against soaring prices in Tel Aviv last summer (photo credit: Tali Mayer/Flash90)
August 7, 2012, 8:29 pm
Protester charged with spraying tear gas at cop
Tel Aviv man allegedly grabbed canister from policeman’s vest
By Philip Podolsky
Social justice protesters chant slogans as they hold up pictures of Moshe Silman, who set himself on fire during a social justice demonstration in Tel Aviv (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
August 6, 2012, 6:30 pm
Woman threatens to set herself on fire on Highway 6
Wave of self-immolation attempts continues, following deaths of Moshe Silman and Akiva Mafa’i
By Greg Tepper
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