From Haaretz: Netanyahu: Housing protests are ‘populist wave’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday dismissed a growing nationwide protest movement over the spiraling cost of living in Israel as “a populist wave [that] is sweeping the country.”

His comments came shortly after lawmakers passed a controversial housing bill that will see the establishment of national committees to approve new housing projects, a move that angered leaders of the housing protest movement. ...

(For more on this, please see:
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/netanyahu-housing-protests-are-populist-wave-activists-plan-third-mass-protest-in-tel-aviv-1.376789)