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A decade of social protest: The struggle has created changes, but Israel is still more expensive than most countries
The consumer price index marked a further increase, and the initiators of the struggle say that the 2011 protest did create changes - but the desired result was not achieved.
According to Itzik Alrov, the initiator of the cottage protest, the public struggle has created important changes - but in the bottom line, Israel 2021 will be more expensive than most OECD countries
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Wednesday, 16 June, 2021, 11:44 Updated: 12:36
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Ten years have passed since the Cottage Cup was confiscated due to its expensive price and swept thousands into the largest social protest the state has ever known, but the cost of living is still on the rise.
The May index, published only yesterday, showed that housing, clothing, culture and fruit prices rose by a significant percentage.
The changes that have nevertheless been made in the Israeli economy have been minor to imperceptible for the middle class.
One morning in June 2011, Itzik Alrov, a young man who worked for an insurance company, opened a group on Facebook calling for a consumer boycott of one product - a cottage, due to the price he raised in those days to almost eight shekels.
Even in his dreams, Alrov did not imagine that the group he started would be joined by 104,000 people in four days, and it would be the opening shot for the great social protest that changed the face of Israeli society.
Alrov later became a communications and strategy consultant, but the Israeli market has not yet experienced significant changes.
In retrospect, the protest did not change market forces: Israel Model 2021 is still more expensive than most OECD countries, both in food prices and housing prices.
A decade of social protest, Israel is still more expensive than most OECD countries (Photo: Official website, courtesy of the photographer)
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Hundreds of thousands of concerned citizens took to the streets in the summer of 2011 in protest of the cost of living and rising housing prices.
"People moved into tents on Rothschild Avenue, which were filled with protest signs and provided new hope of social involvement. A whole decade has passed, and in retrospect it can be admitted that in the aspect of lowering the cost of living, the desired result has simply not been achieved. "Not much has changed," Alrov said.
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Social protest tent in the Wolowskiz Arlozorov Garden, Tel Aviv (Photo: Creative Commons)
According to him, it is difficult to predict whether a new struggle will break out around the wave of price increases that is exciting for us in the background of the formation of the new government and the biennial budget it will seek to pass.
"It should be remembered, that protest was also spontaneous and unpredictable. In the end, the economic problems, struggles and challenges of the middle class and the weaker sections are still with us. All this - without mentioning the economic aspect of the Corona crisis, from which Israel is just beginning." , He explained.
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