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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 429

Tent protests

Reserve soldiers at a protest tent they set up demanding the continuation of fighting in the Gaza Strip, outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, January 2, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 22, 2024, 7:29 pm
As reservists leave war zones, some take up battle for intensified Gaza offensive
Grassroots initiative of disillusioned veterans and soldiers camping outside the Knesset joins growing frustration, on both right and left, with Netanyahu’s war strategy
By Canaan Lidor
Israelis set up tents on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv, to protest against the soaring housing prices in Israel and social inequalities, on June 19, 2022. The placard protests soaring rental prices, and translates roughly as "Landlords need not be pigs" (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90)
June 24, 2022, 1:57 pm
Protests gain steam as Israelis struggle with housing prices. But will they succeed?
A decade ago, people moved into tents to call attention to the high cost of living. After years of government promises, they’re back outside — and housing prices have only soared
By Danielle Nagler
Israelis set up tents on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv to protest against the soaring housing prices in Israel and social inequalities, on June 19, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
June 20, 2022, 11:11 am
Tent encampments spring up across Israel to protest soaring housing costs
Over a decade after 2011 movement, protest camps pop up again in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and other parts of the country, with organizers planning for large demonstration on July 2
By ToI Staff
A woman shops at a street market in the center of Israel's Mediterranean coastal city of Tel Aviv on December 1, 2021. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)
December 2, 2021, 6:31 am
For many in costly capital Tel Aviv, White City living means going into the red
In the newly crowned world’s most expensive city, some denizens say they still can’t imagine going anywhere else, even as prices for housing and other goods swiftly outstrip wages
By Daniella Cheslow
Israeli social activists protesting high housing costs near tents on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv on March 1, 2015. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
August 18, 2015, 8:56 am
Four years after tent protests, hope in short supply for would-be homebuyers
It costs 148 monthly salaries to buy a home here, compared to 76 in France and 66 in the US. Prices rise 6% per year. Desperate young Israelis are leaving the country. What’s gone wrong, and why can nobody fix it?
By Simona Weinglass
Itzik Shmuli joins Meretz and Labor party activists in a protest outside the Knesset in Jerusalem before the vote on the state budget, June 17, 2013. (photo credit: FLASH90)
March 2, 2015, 5:07 am
Labor MK: Iran threat a distraction from housing prices
At renewed Tel Aviv tent protest, Itzik Shmuli accuses Netanyahu’s ‘ill-fated’ foreign policy of taking priority over domestic issues
By ToI Staff
Israeli social activists seen near tents on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv on March 1, 2015. Israeli social activists pitched tents in Tel Aviv Rothschild Boulevard on Sunday, protesting against the high cost of living and housing. (Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
March 1, 2015, 10:47 pm
Hundreds return to TA streets to protest housing prices
More than three years after massive demonstrations, Israelis once again pitch tents on Rothschild Boulevard
By Lazar Berman
Protest on Tel Aviv's boardwalk fizzles following confusion over separate events on Saturday (photo credit: Michal Shmulovich/Times of Israel Staff)
July 14, 2012, 6:51 pm
Discord among organizers leads to separate social protests in Tel Aviv
Saturday’s events marked the one-year anniversary of the first tent set up on Rothschild Blvd. last summer; demonstrations take place in front of government buildings on Kaplan St. and on the city’s boardwalk
By Yoel Goldman
Hundreds of thousands of Israelis gathered at Kikar Hamedina on September 3, 2011 to demand social justice. It was the biggest demonstration in Israel's history. (photo credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
July 14, 2012, 5:23 pm
Thousands of protesters take to Tel Aviv’s boardwalk to demand social justice
Saturday’s event marks the one-year anniversary of the first tent set up on Rothschild Boulevard last summer
By Yoel Goldman
Ben Jacobson
June 29, 2012, 4:11 pm
Ben Jacobson
Black vs. White in Tel Aviv
In the city that never sleeps, the show must go on. Or something like that
Taking no prisoners. Screenshot of Hapoel Ironi Kiryat Shmona's win over Hapoel Tel Aviv in the national championship game. (photo credit: Courtesy Channel 1)
April 3, 2012, 12:26 pm
Northern lights and southern (Judea) fights
Kiryat Shmona puts some beauty back into the beautiful game, and a Hebron house sets Netanyahu vs. Barak
By Joshua Davidovich
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