Amid the constantly growing gaps between rural Israel and the metropolitan center, this coming Sunday the "Equality March" will begin from the north to the south of Israel. The goal is to put a spotlight on the gaps and demand equality for the social and geographic peripheries.

The protesters' concerns come at the same time that major political organizations in Israel are pushing for further development in the northern and southern parts of the country.

The “Council of The Century” most recently said in a statement that "If we continue with the current trend, about 13 million residents are expected to live in the center of the country by 2048, and only 4 million are expected to live in the Negev and the Galilee so that 75% of the country's residents will be crowded into 25% of its territory. The meaning is clear: the erosion of the central region due to skyrocketing housing prices, overcrowding, traffic jams, air pollution, and the lack of land reserves, along with the relegation of economically and socially weak populations to the Negev and the Galilee.”

The organizers of the march toward the Knesset estimate that thousands of people will participate. The march will leave Beer Sheva in the south and Kiryat Shmona in the north on the first day, and on the second day, it will reach Araba and Rahat. On Tuesday it will arrive in Tiberias, on Wednesday in Beit Shemesh, and will end on Thursday in Jerusalem.

בגלל שאני יודעת מה זה לנסות לקבוע תור לרופא מומחה לאבא שלי והתור כמעט בשנה הבאה.

בגלל שאני יודעת, כמה צריך לעבוד קשה כדי להצליח ולא תמיד ה"עשר אצבעות" שלי היו מספיקות, צריך גם שוויון הזדמנויות.

בגלל שאני יודעת שהתחבצ' כמעט בחזקת נעלם באזורים מסוימיים.

בגלל זה ועוד-אני צועדת pic.twitter.com/Ia0N5OIPMg

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"In Israel of 2022, the chance of a child from the periphery to improve his economic situation by the end of his life is the lowest in the entire West," explained the organizers of the march.

"The differences in matriculation scores are enormous, the residents of the periphery live on average about four years less than the residents of the center, and the salary is about half of the salary in the geographic and economic center."

Yaffe Tabja, a social activist and one of the organizers, said that "a child who grows up in the peripheral areas has to work harder for his success because his opportunities are fewer. He does not have the same variety of classes, the same offer of study majors, or the choice of educational frameworks close to home. It has to change."

תודה רבה להדר גיל-עד @HadarGil המצוינת!!! שהיא תמיד מעלה לסדר היום הציבורי נושאים חברתיים שמעטים כותבים עליהם🙌🏿 שליחה אמיתית של מי ששקוף.

— 🇮🇱יפה טבג'ה - yaffa tebeje (@TebejeYaffa) September 14, 2022

In the second half of the 20th century, Israel focused on helping the migrants coming into the country settle and enter the labor market. Part of the plan was to use these new migrants to populate many of the rural areas. Many of the descendants of these migrants now feel they were done an injustice by being forced to populate an area far less developed than the center of Israel.