It wasn't only the cottage cheese or the housing shortage, but many injustices that came together. It was the outcry of the middle class that carries the country on its back, serves in the army and the reserves, pays taxes and gets in return an unsuitable income for a dignified life. In brief, what we saw in the tents that arose on every available boulevard and sidewalk was the protest of the best of our youth, who are marching toward a gloomy and hopeless future. They did it without party organization, without the Histadrut and without backing from the right or left - a new kind of demonstration that was united by the naive desire to live in dignity. An unprecedented demonstration.
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