Hundreds of protesters blocked Tel-Aviv’s Namir Road last Saturday at noon  in protest of the State’s plans to export some of Israel’s natural gas. Hundreds  of social activists marched to Finance Minister Yair Lapid’s home in northern Tel Aviv and then blocked Namir Road, one of Tel Aviv’s main avenues.

The protesters are claiming that gas exports would see every Israeli household losing NIS 3,000 ($832) a year and the State losing hundreds of billions of shekels. The protesters carried signs reading “Leave the gas in the country” and “Stop the gas theft.” They also called for solidarity with the protesters in Turkey. Earlier on Saturday, some 150 activists launched eight vessels in what they called a protest flotilla against plans to export Israel’s recently discovered underwater natural gas reservoirs. The flotilla disembarked from Herzliya and Tel Aviv’s ports and was cruising along Tel Aviv’s coast-line