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Israelis take to streets, blame Netanyahu for economic crisis

Thousands of Israelis hit the streets over the the weekend in protest of the government’s failure to effectively and quickly address the economic crisis induced by the coronavirus.
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The huge protests breaking out all across Israel do not bode well for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The same thing happened nine years ago, in the summer of 2011, with the social justice movement. Back then, Netanyahu failed to foresee the enormous wave of protests that swept across the country.

Inspired by the Arab Spring, hundreds of thousands of Israelis took to the streets in 2011 to protest the high cost of living, the real estate bubble and the collapse of the middle class, believed to have been brought about in large part by excessive taxes and interest fees. At the height of the demonstrations, a million Israelis were in the streets protesting.

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