More than 400,000 Israelis poured into streets across the Jewish state on Saturday to protest the high cost of living, after organisers called for a "million-man march" to revitalise their movement.
The estimated figures were record-breaking, exceeding the 300,000 people who took part in similar demonstration on August 6, and lending new life to the six-week old movement calling for sweeping economic reforms.
Most Israeli media estimated that more than 400,000 people were demonstrating in cities and towns across the Jewish state, taking to the streets shortly after the end of the Jewish Sabbath.
Israeli police declined to give estimates for crowd figures, despite having given them during previous demonstrations.
In Tel Aviv, a vast crowd of mostly young and secular demonstrators chanted slogans skewering Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who protesters accuse of failing to take seriously their calls for sweeping economic change.
"The land of milk and honey, but not for everybody," read one sign carried by a demonstrator in the coastal city. Other protesters waved Israeli flags and chanted against Israel's main supermarket companies, accusing them of unfair pricing.
Addressing the crowd in Tel Aviv, student union president Itzik Shmuli said the turnout showed the continued strength of the movement.
"They told us that the movement was slowing down. Tonight we are showing that it's the opposite," he said.
"We are the new Israelis, determined to continue the fight for a fairer and better society, knowing that it will be long and difficult," he told the cheering protesters.
Protesters called the rallies a "historic" time for Israel.
"When my daughter will be older she will remember with pride that she took part in the largest social protest of Israel's history," said Gali Zeitun, a Tel Aviv teacher who came with her four-year-old daughter.
Adi Markovitch, a 28-year-old graphic artist, said she was taking part in the demonstration because "I want to continue living in my country.
"But how can I do that if I can't make ends meet."
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