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Protests held in major cities across Israel, at what organisers hope will bring one million people into the streets.

Six weeks after Israel's largest social protest began, the movement is holding a 'march of a million protest' that aims to bring a million Israelis across the country into the streets.

The grassroots movement has swollen since July from a cluster of student tent-squatters protesting against rising housing costs into a countrywide mobilisation of Israel's middle class.

"Tonight society will divide into an old type of Israeli who just accepts the way things are and a new type who will join us in pushing for change," Itzik Shmuli, head of the National Student Union and one of the protest's leaders, said on Saturday.

With the school year resuming and a Palestinian statehood bid around the corner, analysts predicted the outpouring will soon cool significantly, adding pressure on the protesters to produce an impressive turnout.

However, 400,000 protesters are out on the streets across the country, Israel's Channel 2 television reported at 7:00 pm GMT.

Up to 50,000 protesters gathered at Paris Square in west Jerusalem near the Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's residence, according to the Israeli police estimates.

Over 40,000 people were protesting in Haifa and thousands others in various pockets across the country, numbers ranging from one thousand to 12,000.

Al Jazeera's Cal Perry said, "There have been hundreds of police officers deployed here in Tel Aviv, and almost half the streets have been shut down. Police are searching people as they enter this central square."

The participants are not only protesting over the high cost of living, but also education, health care, and food.

"An entire generation wants a future," read one banner as demonstrators flooded the streets of Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem, shouting "the people demand social justice."

Netanyahu, had set up a committee exploring a broad revamp of economic policies, yet has warned he would not be able to satisfy all of the protesters demands.

"There has been very little dialogue and very little movement [from the committee], and the sense among some of the organisers is that the government can just sit this one out," Perry said.

Demonstrators in Tel Aviv are shouting, "Bibi, Bibi, go home," referring to Binyamin Netanyahu to leave office.

The prime minister's governing coalition faces no immediate threat, but the protests have emphasised the potential electoral impact of a middle class rallying under the banner of "social justice". http://english.aljazeera.net/news/mi...251210764.html


can this create a chaos within israelis, in egypt, tunisia and libya we have seen the fall of their dictators by these mass protests but can this protest bring down the whole state