Deja vu all over again: Thousands gather in Tel Aviv to protest budget

The 'social protests' returned to Tel Aviv on Saturday night, as thousands protested Finance Minister Yair Lapid's budget proposals that tax the middle class while leaving Israel's largest corporations untouched.

The demonstrators jeered Lapid, calling him a puppet of the
captains of Israeli industry, and accusing him of betraying the middle-class
Israelis who voted him into power. In