The Israeli tents revolution

When I started this blog, I promised myself never to talk about the subject that Israelies like to talk about the most – politics. I have no explanation why we do so, maybe it’s the constant will to show to the world that we’re not the bad guy, of maybe it’s just because we always need to say something (the well known Israeli temperament).

But, these days, Israel is boiling and bubbling, several different protests started in the same time, combining forces against the government to try to change the Israeli reality. Israeli people are known to be very loud. But as loud as we are, we tend to accept everything without protesting. Increase in taxes, economic state of the country, and problems with the religious Jews etc. Now it has been changed. It started with a simple product like Cottage cheese.

The government increased the taxes on dairy products and the Cottage cheese, which is the most basic Israeli dairy product at home after milk, costs 2,3 euros for 100 gr. It is absurd. So the people gathered around to boycott all the dairy products, the protest took place in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa and of course over Facebook and guess what – it worked.

Now a Cottage chest costs 1,2 euros for 100 gr. It was the beginning of a revolution. Afterwards came the Doctors protests over the low salaries and the hard working conditions. They all left the hospitals, they all resigned together and the heads of the doctors associations are marching all over the country protesting. And they not gonna stop till they will get an improvement. Later came the big tent revolution about the tuition fees in the Israeli universities and the renting costs in Tel Aviv and the rest of the cities in the country.

People left their homes and moved into tents all over the country, but the biggest protest takes place in Tel Aviv, on Rothschild Avenue. Hundreds of tents, people outside although it’s hot and humid. This is Tahrir square revolution, the Israeli style. More polite, more civilized, more political and less violent. Yesterday I’ve been there to support the doctors, and brought you some photos. This is how an Israeli revolution looks like. Enjoy.

PS. I forgot how many hot guys you can find in Tel Aviv..wow..it’s hot and steamy, they’re half naked and smoking hot.