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JERUSALEM — Confronted by mounting economic protests that brought more than a quarter-million Israelis onto the streets Saturday night, Prime Minister Benja min Netanyahu announced Sunday that he had appointed a panel of ministers and experts to come up with a plan to curb the rising cost of living.
The move signaled the depth of the political challenge to Netanyahu posed by the grassroots protest movement, which has swept up tens of thousands across Israel and shattered a sense of public complacency in the three weeks since a tent encampment sprouted in Tel Aviv to protest rising rents and housing prices.
