"Our goal – to show that people are united that we live in a united country, and we need to do everything possible to defeat the social imbalance", – said the organizers of the shares. According to police, the highest concentrations of protesters were reported in the north of Haifa, attended by about 30 thousand people. Dissatisfied with their social situation and people Afula, Galilee, Eilat and Modi'in. In the central square of the southern Israeli city of Beersheba about 10 000 protesters unfurled a huge banner: "Negev [desert and the region in the south of Israel] has awakened." Some protesters are holding banners that read: "Israel is dear to me" and "South is angry." As previously reported, on August 6 at a protest rally in Tel Aviv took about 300 thousand people. Despite mass demonstrations, then, as well as on Saturday, reports of clashes between police and protestors have been reported, according to ITAR-TASS. Mass protests have begun in Israel about a month ago. The protesters demand that the cabinet of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's economic reforms, complaining about the high cost of living, social inequality and unemployment. In addition, the protesters feel the need to make more affordable health care and education. The main culprits of the current situation in the country protesters say Prime Minister Netanyahu and Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz. According to recent polls, most Israelis – 88 percent – support the demands of the demonstrators. At the same time more than 50 percent of the population willing to participate in such mass anti-government rallies, the first in Israel's history.
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