One of the campaign ads for the Labor Party shows the leaders of the social protests, Stav Shaffir and Itzik Shmuli, sitting opposite each other against a neat blue background, nostalgically reminiscing about the mass protests of summer 2011. These were the protests that transformed them from unknown social activists to media stars.
Eighteen months after the protest that shook the nation — the one that began with a single tent pitched on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv and ended with thousands of tents down the city's main streets and hundreds and thousands of young people blocking streets and filling the town squares to protest the high cost of housing and more — Shaffir, 27, and Shmuli, 32, now have a very real shot at being elected to the next Knesset on the Labor Party ticket.
