I was intrigued to know how many people would attend the demonstration.
Last week the newspapers were full of articles about the cost of living. The cries of the newspapers for the cost of living were out of proportion to what was happening in Israel on new issues that preoccupied public opinion - the northern border, the prime minister's investigations, the exit from Syria ...
I immediately linked the articles to the desire to push the public into elation, interest, resistance, rebellion ... all that is needed to wake the public to a demonstration.
I do not want to discuss the nature of the articles, which sounded like wild incitement against the entire tycoon, institutional, capistinist world ... a sure recipe for the open nerves of the public.
Ammameh, only a few hundred came to the demonstration ... most of them leftists, students accompanying the chairman of the Student Union.
But they all look healthy, educated, and bored.
I wonder if Lapid and Gabai came? Anyone know?
I am sure that other years have not come: Itzik Shmueli and Mrs. Shafir have not come?
After all, they took a ride on Itzik Alrov and Daphne Leaf, and made a fortune on the backs of the years that established the cottage protest and the tent protest .... Both took headlines and helped politicians and the media and became Knesset members.
So where are the hitchhikers?