Netanyahu has instilled the feeling that all problems are decreed by fate, from the conflict with the Palestinians to the cost of living – that is not true

Prof. Manuel Trajtenberg believes that it is still possible to solve our big problems, and that the new signs of the protest miss the point. “What happened is that we have become entrenched in the ‘Gaza syndrome’,” says Manuel Trajtenberg, a professor of economics at Tel Aviv University, a senior researcher at the Samuel Neaman Institute at the Technion, until a year ago a member of the Knesset (on behalf of Hamahaneh Haziyoni party), prior to that head of the Committee for Social and Economic Change following the 2011 protest.