Rothschild housing protest

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By Ami Kaufman February 13, 2012

An immigrant to Israel struggles to stay here

The social justice movement has started up just in time to offer middle class Israelis like Karen Kaufman hope that life in Israel might finally get better – and cheaper By Karen Kaufman I moved to Israel exactly 15 years ago. Almost immediately after finishing my last exam at high-school, I got on a plane,…

By +972 Magazine August 7, 2011

Tel Aviv protest for social justice, June 30 2011 (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills)

The tent protest: neither social justice, nor revolution

This article was jointly written by Dahlia Scheindlin and Joseph Dana, based on our shared experiences of the protests. The popular, mass protests here that began as a cry of rage against housing prices have evolved admirably into a public outcry against a slew of deep-rooted problems in Israeli social and economic life. Visiting the…

By Dahlia Scheindlin July 31, 2011

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My heart is with the Tent Protest: A personal story

An educated, bi-lingual American Israeli who can’t find a job tries – in vain – to get her landlord to fix her drain. Good luck. It started in December—when I did the dishes in the kitchen sink, dirty water and bits of food bubbled up from the shower drain, flooding the bathroom. I called the…

By Mya Guarnieri Jaradat July 25, 2011

Housing protest on Rothschild Boulevard, Tel Aviv 15 July 2010 (Photo: Dahlia Scheindlin)

Updated: Housing price protests fail to make an effective statement

This post has been updated, Sunday, 24 July, 2011 The race is on to de-legitimize the housing protestors this week, a group of youngsters camped out on Rothschild Boulevard angry about the high cost of housing. Rothschild is the tony downtown of Tel Aviv, which was renovated some years ago, and now apartments there net…

By Dahlia Scheindlin July 17, 2011