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In summer of 2011, Daphni Leef’s apartment lease expired but she failed to find a new, affordable rental. Forced to leave her abode, Daphni pitched a tent on the luxurious Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv, igniting a social protest that eventually saw hundreds of thousands of Israelis taking over streets all over the land, pitching…
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, it emerged from evidence police prosecutors have submitted to the court in support of indictments against protest leader Daphni Leef and others. In addition to video footage…
More than 6,500 people converged in and around Tel Aviv’s Habima Square on Saturday night, protesting the arrest on Friday of Daphni Leef, a leader of last summer’s social protest movement. The protesters blocked Ibn Gabirol Street north to Rabin Square, before moving on to blocking Ayalon highway. Around 20 demonstrators who broke into a…
Daphni Leef, one of the leaders of Israel’s social justice protest movement, was arrested by police on Friday afternoon during a demonstration on Tel Aviv’s Rothschild Boulevard. The demonstration, which began around noon, was meant to revive the social justice protests that swept Israel last summer. Several hundred demonstrators carried tents to the site, which…
Israel’s “tent protests” have joined the ranks of America’s recent sex scandals by earning the attention of Taiwanese animators. Cartoonists for the country’s NMA media company have depicted the protests in a new video, which provides background about the demonstrations in the local language, as well as in English subtitles. The clip features a look-alike…
There is a man in Israel of whom you most likely have never heard, though he is among the noisiest people in the country. His name is Danny Danon. He’s 40 years old, has been in the Knesset for all of two years, yet serves as deputy speaker and chair of its Committee for Immigration,…
