Israeli teachers and students have joined anti-regime demonstrators that have once again taken to the streets across Israel to protest the soaring costs of living and education.
Some 1,500 university lecturers, teachers, students as well as youth groups marched across Israel on Thursday to protests Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's economic policies
“Hopefully, what we are saying here, we make the government some sort of a change of mind, that eventually, will make improve the education general and the higher education specifically,” one of the student protesters said.
Tel Aviv was the scene of Thursday’s massive rally of workers’ organizations from all sectors of Israel.
“I’m here with many other thousands of Israelis to protest against the neo-liberal and capitalists government of Bibi [Benjamin] Netanyahu, that’s choking working class and middle class families, and young people and old people, Jews and Arabs are choking under economic burden,” another student protester said.
Tens of thousands of Israelis in the past weeks have held several anti-regime demonstrations.
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