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Social NGOs and politicians cooperate to move social protests "from the tents to the Knesset" with bills complimenting Trajtenberg proposals.

The Public Utilities Authority approved a further 4.7% increase in electricity rates, following a rise of close to 10% in August.

Examples are rife today of people who silence the voice of their conscience and justify a misdeed by arguing that ´it´s all legal.´ Such acts, not necessarily physical in nature, may not be illicit but they are patently immoral.

July 14, the day the battle began for the right to a roof over one’s head, will be recorded as a landmark date in Israel’s history.

Groups say NIS 100m. were promised to provide financial boost to organizations, but substantially less is being offered now.

The Social Protest in Israel is at a crossroads

Israel’s tent protest movement, which less than three weeks ago could rally hundreds of thousands of protestors and force the government to address their demands, seems to be waning as the summer draws to a close.

According to a survey conducted earlier this year, 55% of all Israelis have an extremely difficult time paying their mortgages.

54,000 of 1.5 million mortgages are in arrears, and 1,500 homes a foreclosed a year

The protest that started out with an upper-middle class seeing itself as a persecuted minority has truly become universal.

YEDID” means “friend” in Hebrew, explained Sari Revkin, the founder and executive director of Israel’s primary non-profit providing social and legal assistance to low-income citizens, empowering them to break the cycle of poverty

Tents and guitars at a campsite can be a lot of fun, but if you want those nights to be leveraged into a successful protest, you´ve got to know what you´re talking about. An abridged guide to those lost in the real estate market (in other words, all of us)

Demonstrators Reject Netanyahu´s Plan as Inadequate

Activists take over construction site, block major intersection in escalation of sleep-in tent protests against high housing prices

As deputy director of YEDID, a non¬profit organization lobbying for social and economic empowerment, Ran Melamed is no stranger to speaking out for social empowerment. He has worked for more than 25 years in marketing communications, public relations and event management. He is also a musician and photographer

The Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor endorses the model developed by YEDID´s Ashkelon Citizens Organizing for Change group. According to the plan, students will work during their summer vacation in return for a stipend for a trip to Poland with their classmates

In honor of Israeli Independence Day, Safed Center Director Sharli Shriki is named one of the most important social leaders in northern Israel

Non-profit organization Yedid announces that Citizen Rights Centers in Dimona, Sderot, Ashkelon, Haifa and Kiryat Shmona will be shut down.

Council for Government Policy for the War on Poverty and Lack of Basic Foodstuff for Families with Limited Means

Right before the minimum wage goes up some 40 shekels per month, Globes takes a peek at four Israeli families´ monthly expenses. These families must try to buy food and pay their mortgage with minimum wage or welfare benefits.

As mortgage interest rates rise, more and more Israelis can´t meet their payments, even those from the middle class. In the past year, YEDID has seen a 40% rise in the number of clients appealing for help.

75,000 people will be helped by NIS 450 monthly boost; 10,000 social workers still planning to strike over low salaries.

Custodial nursing care placement firms blame the National Insurance Institute for the limited pay the caregivers receive under the circumstances, but the NII says the problem is the agencies´ responsibility.

Is the public aware of laws´ existence, and if it is, does it understand how they affect the individual in terms of rights and duties?

A growing crisis in the middle class: YEDID reports that during the first nine months of 2010, 46% of more than 19,000 new clients earn between 6,500-11,000 NIS ($1,800 - $3,050) per month.

Social Affairs Ministry examines government´s decision to implement 3.3% subsidized bread price hike as welfare services warns thousands of households could join poor

Members of the middle class will continue to be pressed into poverty as prices rise for food, gas, and cell phones. A father of eight says wonders when people will wake up and start demonstrating.

Yedid organization decides to nip reckless spending in the bud with financial course for high-schoolers