(CNN) - in the shadow of the cafés and apartments high range, this street in the heart of Tel Aviv leafy is an experiment in social protest. The pedestrian promenade that divides tony Boulevard Rothschild is now with colourful and full of tents as colored people. Temporary residents are students, retirees and young families. A pop up community emerged.
Philip Zundelovitch works nights and spent his days in the tents. "It is very optimistic that calm unusual for Israel.". People like if here, they feel that they finally encountered a lot of people who think like them. "Now we just all get together and claim what we deserve."
It has been three weeks since a handful of activists set up a city tries in the second largest city of Israel. As a first step, these foreigners were protesting for a single cause: the middle class of affordable housing. Now, they form a cheaper community with a long list of complaints, ranging from education to food and higher wages and a general concern about the gap growing between rich and poor. The movement has inspired protests across the country.
"The middle class in Israel finds it difficult to live here, it is difficult to raise children, it is very difficult to find suitable apartments. You just cannot suffer more, you have just to come to the streets and protest, "Noga Klinger, a protester, told CNN."
For some perspective, consider this. Financial news agency Israel Globes, in the past 20 years, the price of an average apartment in Israel rose 102%. The average price of a House of the United States is $ 100,000 for a little over 1,000 square-foot, compared to $300,000 for a similar House in Israel, while the average wage in the States is 55% higher than the average wage in Israel. The price of an apartment on average 1,000 feet square in Israel East of 1.1 million shekels ($308,000)
Lazy afternoon and hot, families and their show dogs on layers set up in the Centre of tents and engage in conversations about their cause. The atmosphere is updated dos and spirits is high. I've been here two weeks. It is quite incredible. Yeah the conditions are not ideal, you have bugs, sometimes the food shortages, sometimes shortage of water, public toilets are still problematic, but again, people are amazing, what is happening here is just absolutely amazing so it puts all the rest side, one protester said.
Having grown up in hundreds of residents, the camp is now a living, breathing and the community functioning. Each tent has an address, morning documents are provided and there is even a kitchen. ADI, one of the volunteer and a self described "homeless VIP" said kitchen flows about 300 people per day. "Do us 3-4 meals." The night we give fruit and cake. »
Despite the collective spirit, this area growing also has its challenges. Sometimes it's fun and sometimes it is very exhausting, Lisa, a resident of tent tells CNN. "We have many things to take care of." She complains of petty crime addicts and drug seeking to steal money.
While many activists say that the protest movement has United the Israelis at the national level, others believe that they have been excluded. "We try to provoke the white, liberal protest to become more concerned about the lower classes of Jewish society and the Palestinian minority in Israel, which, so far, aware of the protest has chosen not to address,", said Mahammed Jabali, an Israeli Arab Jaffa.
If this social protest unprecedented will reshape the future of the Jewish State is still uncertain. For many, there is a sense that this may well be a turning point for the country. "If I didn't step believing to it I wouldn't be here.". "I think that we can make a difference", showing another says.
Zundelovitch believes that despite the festive atmosphere, the goals of the movement are serious. "We do so fully to understand that if it doesn't happen this week peacefully now, five years it will be perhaps violent." It will be much more aggressive and much more menacing. This is why I think it is quite incredible that people understand that we must act now to prevent that the future. »