I would be happy to join in the protest of turning off all electricity on Wednesday for 5 minutes to show my disgust of the hike in rates, dexpecially so much- but no time was given as to when to do it!!! A bit more accuracy is needed if we want to be effective!

It may have something to do with the fact that the gas pipeline from Egypt gets blown up every odd Tuesday. While I share the concern about the rising electricity prices, especially in the summer, this is not the fault of the government. Things are a bit out of control, and if we want lower electricity prices we need to safeguard other energy sources as soon as possible. Egypt is not a reliable source anymore.

The cost of electricity and fuel for cars is high because we gave the oil and natural gas fields in Sinai to Egypt.

She wrote an op ed blasting the government for not praising the egyptian revolution while they were freeing hezbollah from jails and bombing pipelines. I am really starting to get angry about how this traitor livni will take power when she benefits from egyptians bombing pipelines while netanyahu gets blamed. Enough is enough.

They can protest all they want, but it won't help. The era of high standards of living has come to an end. Due to the worldwide increased competition for natural resources and greater instability, prices for everything will rise: energy, water, food. The only one who could have changed this was Obama, but the fool chose to attack Israel instead of solving the real world problems. On the bright side, Israel is better off than places like Egypt and Jordan, but then again, that will change if Israel surrenders Judea and Samaria.

These non-leaders could easily absorb the costs and reduce the burden on the public by reducing the built in taxes/VAT/fuel surcharges/ for electricity and fuels to produce, but they would rather instead of pillaging the public for the coffers of their sacred cows.

Kadima left the border wide open by leaving gaza and did a deal with egypt to get half our gas from them and they then blame bibi when the pipelines are bombed.

Decades ago, after the six day war,Ii remarked to some friendsof mine (we knew many Israelis who came here for the good life), that while they had a lot of machismo and bravado, I questioned their sechel? I am convinced now more than ever, that most Israelis are not very sophisticated. The Sinai oil fields were small. Giving them back also fostered a peace which has lasted 30 years. No Jew has been killed by an Eygptian. What price glory? Lets face it, Israel is dependent ont the USA, from almost day 1. No UN veto, and Pales becomes a state, full -fledged. No US support, and forget those 400 F16s and 3b/year in credits. Our 10b loan allowed 1m Russians to relocate. Israeli leaders are rubber stamps for our Presidents,like it or not. Perhaps it should develop that huge natural gas field, rather than debating Lebanon at the UN, but will take time. How much charity does Israel give those that wont woik...or serve I wonder? 1m people on the govt handout list. Yet, who can fight them? Everyone is afraid. After all, Israel is a haven for we Jews. What are the Arabs contributing. Do they pay taxes? Perhaps a ceiling on expensive homes and apts I see advertised regularly.....in favor of more moderst development, would help? Moving some settlements lock stock and yeshiva, back to Israel, might save some money and serve as a base for new housing...no beef with Obama, theUN, the Arabs, there? One poster comments, "sacred cows". My quesiton, where, be specific!

An article on another website details fast growing anti normalization pressures in Jordan---the Arab Spring wil bring nothing more than chaos to the ME, as was predicted almost from the beginning...only Obama and the anti Israel media lapped up the alleged birth of democracy. The "tent" people will soon have other things to worry about---if they don't emigrate...

Hence why the prices aren't jumping up by 30%, only 10%. What people seem to fail to realize is that taxes can be down and prices can still be up, at the same time. It isn't just the taxes. And if we eliminate all the taxation, guess what? End result might be a short-term period of sameness, but as tax revenue goes down, so does the state along with it. Because the state needs a budget, too. We can eliminate all taxation and celebrate for a year and then watch everything fall apart. Or the next best thing, tax the rich and big business in such a manner so that most of them will just relocate to other countries, and then we can watch our economy fall apart from *that*. It isn't all so simple as some people seem to believe. There are no magic, instant solutions. Like it or not, we're living in a period of instability and change - and change, unlike in Obama's campaign notes, isn't all good.

Everyone knew the risk of solely relying on natural gas from Egypt. Uzi Ladau wanted to keep the coal option open, but it was shelved because of environmental concerns. Personally I prefer to pay more and have cleaner air. Only an idiot would expect to have the best of both worlds.

untill then you will fail

very simple for the govenment to fix for the protesters, take the leaders and say ok you fix it here the authority you solve the problem but make sure we have money to run the country and the arm forces etc but if you have a better ideal can lower the prices get cheaper homes etc no problems show us how or stand for election with own party and run the govenment, if it was that easy i'm sure that the protesters would back off fast

to David from Hasmoainm :: i cant believe u r such shameless !! it is OUR gas ... EGYPTIAN GAS ... Sinai is OUR land and u didnt gave us anything we got our stolen occupied land back !!!! we pay for gas and electricity more than u and export our gas to you in prices less than universal prices !! we did our revolution to get rid of Mubarak to get our rights back & stop this unfair deal ... we are not gonna allow our government to export OUR gas to israel anymore ...

Jordan and Spain have agreed to raise the price of imported Egypt's gas. Those two countries, also Israel, are showing no social justice towards their own people.

These people don't understand basic economics, which is no surprise why most of them are socialists. Rather than protesting the government, which has little to do with this issue, they should be using that energy to find alternate sources than from Egypt.

Electricity is still going up 10% ? Just goes to show no-one is really listening and no-one really cares. How sad is that.

Gas to Jordan & Israel comes exclusively from fields in northern Nile Delta, West of Egypt's river. Coward Hasbarah.