Social protest: the Israeli case

Abstract

Purpose

The current study attempts to determine to what extent, if any, the protests of summer of 2011 affected public attitudes and behavior in Israel. More specifically, the objective of the current study was to examine by means of a survey, Israeli public attitudes toward: the social protest; the enterprises that were the focus of the protest; and the government and the state of Israel.

Design/methodology/approach

The findings presented below are based on a survey that was conducted among 1,019 respondents during the second week of March 2012 via an internet panel. The sample represents the Hebrew-speaking population of Israel, with a maximum sampling error of +3.2 percent.

Findings

The findings of the current study show that the Israeli public was united behind various demands of the protesters: to control the prices of basic products and services; to decrease the price of small apartments for young families; to reduce the income gap between the poor and the rich; and to increase the social services provided by the government.

Originality/value

The first academic case study on the Israeli social protest.

Citation

Shuv-Ami, A. (2013), "Social protest: the Israeli case", Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy, Vol. 7 No. 4, pp. 373-382. https://doi.org/10.1108/JEC-06-2012-0039