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It's happening. Now. After 53 days of protests, Israel's social justice movement is holding its final rally, hoping it will be the largest in Israel's history. Hoping it will change the nation's character forever.

The protesters are hoping that a million people (13% of the population in a country with only 7.7 million - which would equal 40 million in the U.S.) will flood the streets, giving Israel's youth the social and political capital they need to enter the political area and effect monumental changes in Israel's economic and social structures – with smaller segments hoping to also change Israel's geopolitical stances.

They are hoping the movement will give all of Israel's citizens equal opportunities and equal treatment under the law. Jews. Arabs. Immigrants. Druze. Bedouin. The poor. The shrinking middle class. The vulnerable.  

At their core, these protests have been about a fairer distribution of wealth in Israel. They have been about economic reforms that give all Israelis access to affordable education, health care, and fair wages. But the movement has morphed and broadened over time, with a cacophony of voices adding their demands, from Arabs calling for fairer democratic treatment to leftists demanding an end to the occupation to political activists demanding a less militaristic society.

The movement has inspired Tahrir-style tent encampments to pop up in nearly every municipality in th... >>>