Thousands of Zionists took to streets in the occupied territories in protests against high cost of living.

Thousands of Zionists took to streets in the occupied territories in protests against high cost of living.

The mass demonstrations on Saturday, for a fourth consecutive week, have become a weekly ritual this summer, delivering Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government its most serious domestic crisis.

The protests spread from Nahariya in the north, on the Lebanon border, to the port city of Eilat.
in the north, on the Lebanon border, to the port city of Eilat at Israel's southernmost tip.

Overall, police said more than 50,000 people attended protests in about a dozen locations. Israeli media put the figure at around 70,000 nationwide.

In the largest protest, at least 25,000 people took to the streets of Haifa in the north, according to Zionist police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.
Another major demonstration took place in Beersheba in the south, where demonstrators held banners such as "the people demand social justice."