Changes in the law allowing enforcement authorities to declare Israelis 'restricted customers' allows banks to rein in wayward borrowers, but the number of debtors suffering the consequences has more than doubled.

In fact, it’s a cacophony of interest groups claiming to speak in the name in an inchoate majority.

After Omri Hayun railed against Israel's economic situation last week on the social networking site, he found police knocking at his door.

The IEC's debt is 30 times higher than all the ports in Israel, and its salaries – financed by our electricity bills – are 10 times the rate.

The OECD report naming Israel as the poorest country in the West coincided with yet another expenses scandal involving Benjamin and Sara Netanyahu.

Protests are taking place in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Be'er Sheva, in front of the prime minister's house in Caesarea, and in front of businessman Yitzhak Tshuva's house in Ramat Poleg.

Once they finished venting and lambasting Finance Minister Yair Lapid over the austerity measures, middle class Israelis poured into the streets for peaceful rallies. In a month, Facebook and cardboard signs may no longer be enough.

If the state wants to slash child income stipends as a bid to get the ultra-Orthodox to work, it needs to have a mechanism in place to help those poor families who do work.

The current draft of the Economic Arrangements Law includes a provision that would apply local property taxes to cemetery burial plots, according to a Yedioth Ahronoth report; Finance Ministry issues statement denying the report.

Protesters march in Tel Aviv against Finance Minister Yair Lapid's budget cuts; hundreds in Ramat Gan protest the export of natural gas in front of the home of Energy and Water Resources Minister Silvan Shalom.