Daphni Leef spearheaded the social protests in Israel in 2011. The fact that she’s working in a beauty parlor instead of the Knesset astonishes Tuvia Tenenbom.
Israel Police have been carefully following the Facebook accounts of the social protest movement and its leaders, apparently as part of a hunt for evidence of criminal wrongdoing.
Thousands of protesters blocked Tel Aviv streets and clashed with police. Activists were angry over the arrest of leader Daphni Leef a day earlier.
Daphni Leef, one of the leaders of Israel’s social justice protest movement, was dragged away by police during a demonstration on Tel Aviv’s Rothschild Boulevard.
Israel’s “tent protests” have joined the ranks of America’s recent sex scandals by earning the attention of Taiwanese animators.
Knesset member Danny Danon and tent city protest leader Daphne Leef see starkly different futures for Israel. The country is suspended between their divergent views.