300,000 Israeli citizens flooded the streets

World News - Some 300,000 Israeli citizens flooded the streets in the capital of the Jewish state, on Saturday (08/06/2011) evening, to protest the increasingly high cost of living.

Approximately 200,000 people are estimated to be seen filled the streets in Tel Aviv, and the business centers of the country. They chanted demands for social justice for the community. The crowd-think this holding posters calling for the cabinet to resign.

This event is the largest demonstrations that have occurred since hundreds of young Israelis set up a tent city on Rothschild Boulevard, north of Tel Aviv, last month, to show their anger over soaring house prices, making it not affordable to the public.

Protest tents that held hundreds of young men quickly spread to other cities, and developed into large demonstrations and coordinated with the demands of government policy toward the cost of living is high.

In addition, the rally also highlighted the social problems of other communities, which include a number of complaints to spike the cost of housing, prices of basic foodstuffs, child care costs and gasoline tax. More than 100,000 people participated in a major demonstration on Saturday evening.

Professional community was also not standing still, the doctors in the country, specialists, and managers of health centers helped lead the campaign for six months, calling for higher wages and better working conditions.

The protest was initially launched through the Facebook social networking nearly three weeks earlier, led mainly by middle-class Israelis, who are not satisfied with what they perceive as a gradual erosion of their economies.

Noga, a woman demonstrator of an 50-year-old said they did not specifically oppose the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but would like to remind the government to care more about the Israeli society, where rich people can enjoy a luxurious life, while the middle class to bear almost all of their responsibilities.

"This country should be able to take care of the people. The government should be able to take some strategic steps to solve all forms of monopoly and injustice," he said.

Sources close to Netanyahu told local media earlier this week, the prime minister is formulating a major social welfare plan, which reportedly will likely be able to "change the face of the country."

The plan includes legislation that aim to break the cartel monopoly that happened today, so it increased the chance of market competition, and the government will make indirect tax cuts.

Despite the popularity polls of Prime Minister Netanyahu continued to fall, he does not see demonstrations massive hit as a danger to the country's coalition government. Netanyahu remained confident of being able to handle these social problems.